Seascape Paintings For Sale

Browse our collection of seascape paintings for sale or available to rent online today. We’re home to some of the most exciting contemporary seascape painters who are producing energetic, striking portraits of the sea in a variety of styles, including impressionistic seascapes and figurative seascapes.

About the artists

Alison Johnson’s piece, Rollercoaster, which echoes Turner’s violent portraits of the sea. The landscape artist captures powerful, curling waves in which the colour blue alternates with dark vacuums. This ominous undercurrent is continued in Aspects of Force and The Jets but her other landscapes are a nod to the eerie calm that is also present on the British coastline.

Kazakhstani artist Yuliya Martynova also finds calm in seascapes. But her watercolours are serene and peaceful, unlike Johnson’s oils. Instead, in Blue Bay she paints a portrait of multi-tonal blue, punctuated only by two distant yachts. This is not Turner’s sea, placing man in mortal danger, but the kind holidaymakers dream about; infused with a sense of escapism.

Martynova’s seascapes are dripping in blue, whereas Nadia Day finds calm in the coast’s colourlessness on a grey day. In her piece Wonder, that greyness is animated by her choppy brushstrokes and the glinting reflection of a man and his son looking out to sea.

About Seascape Paintings

Although the art form has been documented as far back as Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece, it was during the 17th century’s Dutch Golden Age that seascapes emerged as their own distinctive style. Dutch seascape painters such as Jan Porcellis and Jan van de Cappelle responded to an era where the Dutch navy was at the peak of its glory – making money from a booming sea trade in between battles with the British Navy – by using maritime art to depict their country’s grand Tall Ships, navigating an unpredictable ocean, cloaked in sea spray and atmosphere.

Artists’ obsession with sea scenes that pitted tiny sailors against towering waves continued through the 18th century and into the Romantic Age. JMW Turner was more obsessed than most, painting around 1,000 seascapes in his lifetime. For him, the ocean became a way to examine themes such as The Sublime and nature’s power over mankind. The Romantic painter would use light, dark and colour to seesaw between visions of the ocean as a tranquil place punctuated by pink-hued horizons and a black and violent backdrop onto which human strength – particularly the strength of fishermen – met its limits.

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    Shallows II by Gina Parr

    Shallows II

    Paintings - 25x25 cmRent for $80 /mo
    The Oceans Edge by Paul Bennett

    The Oceans Edge

    Paintings - 101x101 cm
    Night Sea by Freya Purdue

    Night Sea

    Paintings - 120x152 cm
    Burnt Dawn by Paul Bennett

    Burnt Dawn

    Paintings - 80x80 cm
    The Sea The Sea by Claire Cansick

    The Sea The Sea

    Paintings - 122x304 cmRent for $600 /mo
    Between the sea and the sky  by Barry Wilson

    Between the sea and the sky

    Paintings - 90x90 cmRent for $225 /mo
    Study 3 Fortress Series by Day Bowman

    Study 3 Fortress Series

    Paintings - 40x50 cmRent for $120 /mo

    KEEP ON RUNNING

    Paintings - 110x110 cm

    Gulls (Groundswell)

    Paintings - 80x80 cm

    Study 7 Fortress Series

    Paintings - 40x50 cmRent for $120 /mo

    Le passage de Bastia

    Paintings - 195x97 cm

    Ripples

    Paintings - 40x30 cmRent for $195 /mo

    Love the sea No. 5822

    Paintings - 100x150 cm

    Wild Seas, Bryher

    Paintings - 61x76 cmRent for $200 /mo

    Stay

    Paintings - 100x80 cm

    Flood and Ebb 2

    Paintings - 45x50 cmRent for $125 /mo

    Preparations For the Glitter Path

    Paintings - 80x60 cmRent for $130 /mo

    Beyond the Lost Sea

    Paintings - 50x50 cm

    Sand Lands

    Paintings - 100x100 cm

    Wittering I

    Paintings - 50x50 cm

    La vague blanche

    Paintings - 80x100 cm

    Stormy Seas, Isles of Scilly - St Agnes

    Paintings - 76x61 cmRent for $200 /mo

    Beach Landing, Scilly Isles

    Paintings - 61x76 cmRent for $200 /mo

    Far Rockaway 3

    Paintings - 50x40 cmRent for $80 /mo

    Eternal Dawn

    Paintings - 50x60 cm

    The Rolling Mist

    Paintings - 50x60 cm

    The Immigrants # 2

    Paintings - 102x102 cmRent for $525 /mo

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