Painted in 1967 in New York, Frank Bowling’s ‘Mother’s House and Night Storm’ exemplifies the dynamism and profundity of the artist’s early output, evincing a distinctive language of painting that encompasses personal history and socio-political concerns, while presaging his shift toward abstraction. Bowling inserts representations of his childhood in the form of a silkscreen image of the building which served as both his mother’s house and Bowling’s Variety Store in New Amsterdam, Guyana. Deriving from a photograph of his mother’s shop taken in 1953, the year of the Coronation and the same year Bowling left for London, the architectural imagery and title of ‘Mother’s House and Night Storm’ is testament to the artist’s admiration for his mother, Agatha Elizabeth Franklin Bowling. Although the artist first produced a stock of silkscreen images of Bowling’s Variety Store in 1964 at Camberwell School of Art, he began deploying the motif in 1966, coinciding with the year Guyana gained independence from the United Kingdom. The extraordinary composition offers multiple perspectives of history and place, converging landscape and memory.