“Maelstrom”

Dimensions: 40” x 72”

Oil on canvas and wood panel

Artist: Greg Busch

Maelstrom is a storm disguised as stillness. A body floats, suspended in golden light, yet pulled into a spiraling chaos that feels both sensual and dangerous. Around her, fragments of the ocean world appear like memories or warnings — surfers vanish into foam, life preservers drift like pop-colored satellites.

Greg Busch renders this figure with a hyperreal, almost devotional softness, but surrounds her with symbols of instability — gravity, submersion, surrender. The water distorts everything, including time.

It’s a piece about being caught — between beauty and threat, serenity and collapse. The painted “lifesavers” flirt with satire, hinting at rescue that’s decorative at best. Like much of Busch’s work, Maelstrom is technically virtuosic, emotionally unguarded, and deeply contemporary in its symbolism.

For collectors, this is a powerful acquisition — one that merges figurative elegance with conceptual tension, capturing the quiet pull of forces we cannot see, and the choice to either resist or let go.