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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    Mer étoilée by Virginie Bastié
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    Mer étoilée by Virginie Bastié
    Mer étoilée
    Paintings - 97x130 cm
    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
    The Broken Shore by Paul Bennett
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    The Broken Shore by Paul Bennett
    The Broken Shore
    Paintings - 100x100 cm
    Voyage by Claire Cansick
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    Voyage by Claire Cansick
    Voyage
    Paintings - 29x42 cmRent for €65 /mo
    Beyond the Blue Horizon by Paul Bennett
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    Beyond the Blue Horizon by Paul Bennett
    Beyond the Blue Horizon
    Paintings - 100x100 cmRent for €230 /mo
    Fog Forming..., 2024 by Adam Reid
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    Fog Forming..., 2024 by Adam Reid
    Fog Forming..., 2024
    Paintings - 60x80 cmRent for €125 /mo
    Brighter Days by Paul Bennett
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    Brighter Days by Paul Bennett
    Brighter Days
    Paintings - 100x100 cm
    Low Tides by Paul Bennett
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    Low Tides by Paul Bennett
    Low Tides
    Paintings - 100x100 cmRent for €230 /mo
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    Winter Dawn by Paul Bennett
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    Paintings - 80x80 cm
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    A découvert by Catherine Villermé
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    Paintings - 60x60 cm
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    La douceur des jours by Catherine Villermé
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    Paintings - 40x40 cm
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    Le grand bleu by Alain Voinot
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    Paintings - 50x65 cm
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    Flood and Ebb 2 by Day Bowman
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    Paintings - 45x50 cmRent for €130 /mo
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    The Distant Shores Awake by Paul Bennett
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    Paintings - 80x100 cm
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    Persistence rétinienne by Sasha C. Bokobza
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    Paintings - 50x61 cm
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    Paintings - 50x50 cm
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    Paintings - 122x304 cmRent for €585 /mo
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    Crashing Seas at Dusk by Trudy Montgomery
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    Paintings - 38x51 cmRent for €120 /mo
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    Storm in a Teacup by Kelly Allison
    Storm in a Teacup
    Paintings - 50x61 cm
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    Optimists by Valérie Chrétien
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    Paintings - 27x42 cm
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    Selkie Selfie by Claire Cansick
    Selkie Selfie
    Paintings - 51x61 cmRent for €105 /mo
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    St Peter Port, Guernsey by Frank Creber
    St Peter Port, Guernsey
    Paintings - 76x86 cmRent for €100 /mo
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    Sailing in Fog by Frank Creber
    Sailing in Fog
    Paintings - 160x200 cmRent for €180 /mo
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    DEAUVILLE by nOva
    DEAUVILLE
    Paintings - 20x20 cm
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    Power by Alison Bradley
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    Paintings - 25x66 cmRent for €130 /mo
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    Fortress Series 8 by Day Bowman
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    Paintings - 140x150 cmRent for €650 /mo
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    The Big Drink by Claire Cansick
    The Big Drink
    Paintings - 122x152 cmRent for €165 /mo
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    Gulls (Groundswell) by Wayne Sleeth
    Gulls (Groundswell)
    Paintings - 80x80 cm
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