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.

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Dawn Breakers Painting
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.

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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

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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.
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‘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.
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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.  
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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.

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Towards Portsmouth - painting by Steve Bonner
‘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 laughing) for painting shingle.

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‘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.
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‘Breaker 2’
45cm x 55cm (18” x 22”) Oil on painted edge box canvas. No frame is necessary.
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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

 

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February 2022 – Bracklesham Bay

50cm x50cm (20″ x 20″ approx)

Oil on canvas

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Dawn Breakers Painting

Dawn Breakers

50cm x 76cm

Oil on box adge canvas

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Wind Riders

50cm x50cm (20″ x 20″ approx)

Oil on Canvas

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Fusion

48cm x 47c (approx)

Oil on Canvas mounted board

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Sap Green No2 - West Wittering
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.

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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.

 

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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.

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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.

 

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The Long View

Acrylic on panel – 26cm x 56cm inc plain white frame

 

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Chrome Gree 1 -- West Wittering
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.

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Groyne No4

Oil on painted edge box canvas – no frame necessary. 92cm x 61cm – 36″ x 24″ West Wittering on a lowering tide.

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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.
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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.
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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.

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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.

Into the Rain
Oil on canvas 20” x 24”

I’ve painted Gaffers many times and make no apology for it – the geometry of the sails is magic to paint. I think Medici published this one too.

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Commissions

Just to let you know - I’m delighted to consider commissions, on just about anything (with exception of children and animals - there are many specialist painters out there who would do a much better job than I ) Please contact me here and we’ll discuss your ideas. SB

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