Jane Hayes Greenwood
Weird Weather
23 January - 7 March 2026

Co-presented with Ione & Mann, 6 Conduit Street, W1



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Weird Weather brings together new paintings and drawings by Jane Hayes Greenwood, created during a profound period of transition following the loss of her mother in early 2025. The exhibition presents new landscape paintings that merge the hills and skies of the artist’s West Yorkshire childhood with a dynamic internal weather system.

In these paintings, skies swell with anthropomorphic clouds; rainbows stretch into the corporeal and hills strain under atmospheric weight. Here, landscapes absorb memory, feeling and the body. These works explore how weather - both emotional and meteorological - shape the way we experience the world. At times sublime, at times violent, weather here becomes a carrier of both spectacle and private experience, marking moments of deep love, wonder, beauty, turbulence and loss.

Exactly a month before her mother’s death, Hayes Greenwood witnessed a rare phenomenon over London: fiery pink mammatus clouds filled the sky at sunset. Named after the Latin for breast, mammatus clouds have pendulous,udder-like forms and are both bodily and otherworldly. These clouds are often associated with storms and suggest instability in the air. For the artist, the sci-fi spectacle became charged with an intense mix of wonder and grief. A key painting, which depicts a surging cloudscape over a Yorkshire valley, was developed out of this experience, holding in tension order and chaos.

Other works in the series continue to explore the tension between elemental weather and private experience. When Storm Eunice swept violently across the UK in February 2022, it became a national spectacle that was widely shared and streamed. For Hayes Greenwood, the storm involved a painfully personal dimension, preventing her from reaching her stepfather in his final hours. Such moments underline the powerful connections we draw between the external world and our inner lives.

Speaking about the work, Hayes Greenwood says, “These paintings expand out of a kind of grief logic, a process I have found to be prismatic - where ecstatic love, deep pain, gratitude, and acceptance can all wildly coexist within the same psychedelic minute. Crazy weather and the Calder Valley landscapes of my childhood have become anthropomorphised in these works, attempting to express the scale of deeply felt emotion as it shifts through the body and spills into the world.”

At a time when climate change is reshaping our weather systems with growing urgency, Weird Weather inhabits this turbulence. The elements have long been a site of wonder and terror in art history, from the Romantic sublime of Turner to the visionary landscapes of Georgia O’Keefe and the charged landscapes of Edward Burra. Hayes Greenwood’s paintings situate themselves in this lineage, in an ever-changing world where shifting atmospheres come to reflect the richness and complexity of our inner lives. Weather here is not only a metaphor but a vital, living force: awe-inspiring and full of wild possibility. Its beauty lies in its energy and transformation, echoing the dynamic balance between the natural world and human experience.

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