Nujoom Alghanem’s Voyage has the uncanny effect of feeling both tempestuous and serene, like looking at a boat on a misty dawn or, conversely, on a cloudless day. A lot of this is due to the painting’s grit and texture: the dabs and creases of black paint that have been superimposed on the abstracted seascape, the boat with its sailors. Without the black paint, the scene would have plunged into indecipherable abstraction.