Seascapes – Paintings of the Ocean
I live and work by the sea, here in West Wittering, on the South Coast of England, and I doubt it will come as much of a surprise that I paint the sea – quite a lot!
If you’d like to see available seascape paintings, rather than this historic gallery, please follow this link
December Gales – No.1
Acrylic on canvas 50cm x 50cm
Possibly my favourite all time wave acrylic study and sadly I sold it a couple of months back.
Why sadly? Because it’s my favourite in this format, and it and Low Tide – West Wittering, were earmarked for submission in the Marine Artists exhibition at the Mall Galleries, but my customer wanted both of them, didn’t want to chip me, and as they say, needs must as the devil drives.
SOLD
December Gales – No.2
Acrylic on canvas 45.7cm x 35.5cm
Last December there were a series of sensational gales here on the South Coast of England. Strong winds and bright days. I spent hours down there with my bum on the beach, camera in hand. I’ve painted 5 so far and I’ve still got stacks of really good reference of those sensational seas.
SOLD
Low Tide – West Wittering
Oil on canvas 2’ x 3’
Big and bold. The second I’ve done in this genre but both quite different. The bulk of the painting executed in what might be termed my usual style and matt varnished, the groyne heavily impasto and gloss varnished. SOLD
Wave Study 5
Oil on Canvas 24” x 24”
This was the day after the first gale of the 2017 Autumn season and although un-named it was still a pretty good blow. At the height of the storm the sea is entirely surf, wind chop I think it’s called. The following day the swell remains but without the broken sea. This is how it looked about an hour and a quarter before high tide.
The sea in this painting is painted in glazes which gives it a wonderful translucent quality.
SOLD
‘Breaker 3’
50cm x 50cm (20” x 20”) Oil on painted edge box canvas.
The last of my Breaker series, which started with the painting featured below.
Once again this is painted almost entirely in glazes – they give the sea a wonderful translucency, the light in the wave is the white of the canvas coming through the layers of paint. The final glaze in this painting, the shadow in the following breaker, was actually a thin layer of violet.
An effective technique, but very time consuming. Another glaze, day after day, until it’s reached the required depth of colour.
SOLD
The Groyne – No 3 – West Wittering
Oil on painted edge box canvas 50cm x 100cm (20” x 40”)
A day or two after a gale. Winters sun and the tide nearly high.
SOLD
December Gales – No.3
Acrylic on Canvas 50cm x 50cm
The third painting of the series featuring the incredible seas of December 2023. Rubbish photo I’m afraid.
SOLD
‘Towards Portsmouth’
50cm x 100cm (20″ x 40″ approx) Oil on canvas covered panel. This was the first painting to use my patented technique (it’s not really ) for painting shingle.
SOLD
‘Seventh Wave – East Wittering – Breaker Series No 4’
50cm x 100cm (20” x 40” approx) Oil on painted edge box canvas. No frame is necessary. Very pleased with this one! A big breaker hitting the backswash coincides with it hitting the edge of the shingle bank, it hits it like a brick. A phenomena that doesn’t last long. I’ve seen a breaker like this that ran the whole length of the wave – no point in painting it – I doubt anyone would believe it – a wall of water.
SOLD
October 2020 – Bracklesham Bay
50cm x 50cm (20″ x 20″)
Oil on Canvas
Framed in a simple but effective white frame – ideal as an inner frame for a more elaborate moulding
Sold
Dawn Breakers
50cm x 76cm
Oil on box adge canvas
SOLD
Sap Green No2
Acrylic on panel, A4 – 8.27” x 11.69”
A wave breaking on the beach in West Wittering, Sussex, UK.
Framed in a simple but effective white frame – ideal as an inner frame for a more elaborate moulding.
SOLD
Sap Green No3
Acrylic on panel, A4 – 8.27” x 11.69”
A Spanish wave – Cala de Mijas
Framed in a simple but effective white frame – ideal as an inner frame for a more elaborate moulding.
SOLD
Sap Green No4
Acrylic on panel, A4 – 8.27” x 11.69”
Framed in a simple but effective white frame – ideal as an inner frame for a more elaborate moulding.
SOLD
Sap Green No5
Acrylic on panel, A4 – 8.27” x 11.69”
A Spanish wave – Cala de Mijas, Costa del Sol
Framed in a simple but effective white frame – ideal as an inner frame for a more elaborate moulding.
SOLD
Chromium Green No1
Acrylic on panel, A4 – 8.27” x 11.69”
Another Wittering Wave
Framed in a simple but effective white frame – ideal as an inner frame for a more elaborate moulding.
SOLD
Groyne No4
Oil on painted edge box canvas – no frame necessary. 92cm x 61cm – 36″ x 24″ West Wittering on a lowering tide.
SOLD
Groyne at Bracklesham Bay
Acrylic on canvas 40” x 30”
I’ve noticed that the waves build up sand on one side of the groyne leaving the other side lower. Very often, even at low tide this then stays saturated. The weed covered timbers in this painting are heavily impasto – unusual for my work.
SOLD
Surf Study – No 1 – West Wittering
Oil on Canvas 36” x 24”
A November afternoon following a gale. The tide is quite high and the breakers at there finest. The beach here goes out a long way and the waves roll and break, roll and break, continuously.
SOLD
Do you own one of my paintings by any chance?
Over the years I’ve painted many yachts and sailing ships – cutters, frigates, all manner of craft. Sadly, I kept a very poor photographic record – so, if you have one would you take a snap of it please – I’d love to include it here, and more importantly I’d love to re-aquaint myself with it. Thank you.
White Sails – Thunderhead
By Steve Bonner. Oil on Canvas 18” x 24” – SOLD
Medici kindly published this as a Greetings Card for some years. Gratifying.
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