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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    Winter Dawn by Paul Bennett

    Winter Dawn

    Paintings - 80x80 cm
    Flood and Ebb 7 by Day Bowman

    Flood and Ebb 7

    Paintings - 45x50 cmRent for $125 /mo
    Between the sea and the sky  by Barry Wilson

    Between the sea and the sky

    Paintings - 90x90 cmRent for $225 /mo
    Comet by Max Naylor

    Comet

    Paintings - 66x34 cmRent for $100 /mo
    The Sea The Sea by Claire Cansick

    The Sea The Sea

    Paintings - 122x304 cmRent for $600 /mo
    Keeping it Human by Perdita Sinclair

    Keeping it Human

    Paintings - 100x80 cmRent for $170 /mo
    Sea from the Past by Paul Bennett

    Sea from the Past

    Paintings - 90x90 cm
    The Hidden Shore by Paul Bennett

    The Hidden Shore

    Paintings - 101x76 cm
    Au-delà by Catherine Villermé

    Au-delà

    Paintings - 50x50 cm
    Passage by Tessa Houghton

    Passage

    Paintings - 80x100 cm

    Claiming What's Mine

    Paintings - 80x60 cmRent for $130 /mo

    Far Rockaway 3

    Paintings - 50x40 cmRent for $80 /mo

    The Immigrants # 1

    Paintings - 102x102 cmRent for $525 /mo

    Stormy Seas, Isles of Scilly - St Agnes

    Paintings - 76x61 cmRent for $200 /mo

    Arbre et baie

    Paintings - 80x100 cm

    Ripples

    Paintings - 40x30 cmRent for $195 /mo

    Lost Horizons

    Paintings - 101x76 cm

    Nuages sur la mer

    Paintings - 89x130 cm

    Beach Landing, Scilly Isles

    Paintings - 61x76 cmRent for $200 /mo

    Crashing Rocks at Bryher

    Paintings - 38x51 cmRent for $145 /mo

    Age of Exploration - Viewers

    Paintings - 62x52 cmRent for $510 /mo

    KEEP ON RUNNING

    Paintings - 110x110 cm

    Sea of love

    Paintings - 150x120 cm

    La naissance du vent

    Paintings - 100x100 cm

    Lebensstufen

    Paintings - 42x32 cm

    Les grandes marées

    Paintings - 80x80 cm

    Finistère I

    Paintings - 160x120 cm

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