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, Symbiosis (2024), echoes J. M. W. Turner’s awe-inspiring portraits of the sea. The landscape artist captures a powerful, curling wave which sweeps across the canvas. The colours alternate between a dark, atmospheric palette and vibrant, fiery hues. This ominous undercurrent is continued in Catch my Breath (2023), which simultaneously nods to the eerie calm of 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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La plage de Palus.  by James MacKeown
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La plage de Palus.  by James MacKeown
La plage de Palus.
Paintings - 27x22 cm
Selsey Bill Modified Landfall by Philip Vaughan
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Selsey Bill Modified Landfall by Philip Vaughan
Selsey Bill Modified Landfall
Paintings - 102x102 cm
Ocean Rainforest by Claire Milner
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Ocean Rainforest by Claire Milner
Ocean Rainforest
Paintings - 100x100 cm
Lost Horizons by Paul Bennett
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Lost Horizons by Paul Bennett
Lost Horizons
Paintings - 101x76 cm
Vacances d'hiver en bord de mer by Hélène Vac
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Vacances d'hiver en bord de mer by Hélène Vac
Vacances d'hiver en bord de mer
Paintings - 120x160 cm
Brighter Days by Paul Bennett
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Brighter Days by Paul Bennett
Brighter Days
Paintings - 100x100 cm
Between the sea and the sky  by Barry Wilson
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Between the sea and the sky  by Barry Wilson
Between the sea and the sky
Paintings - 90x90 cmRent for $225 /mo
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