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Landacre was fascinated with dramatic weather and other natural phenomena. Storm reflects his move towards greater abstraction than his earlier, more traditional California landscapes. He has incorporated various natural elements: rain, clouds, a lake, a windblown tree, and a mountain ridge. The beautiful curve of a tree merges with the sunlit ridge of a mountain, forming a diagonal that extends to the upper left of the composition. In Storm, Landacre was not aiming to reproduce a specific location, and instead, he reduced the composition to organic, sinuous forms, which are sensitively rendered with his meticulous woodcutting technique.
Hilary Roberts wrote that what makes Landacre’s work so appealing is the balance between his exacting perfection of line on the one hand and the unrestrained exhilaration in his forms on the other.
