Seascapes – Paintings of the Ocean

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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‘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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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.

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.

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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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.

Groyne No4

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

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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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.

SOLD