Friday, July 31, 2009

Robin Hall - American


Cliffs, 48 x 72 inches

Randall Exon - American


Surfer and Bird, 18 x 34 inches



Stone Pier on Blacksod Bay, 20 x 28 inches



Sailboat, 20 x 22 inches

Monday, July 27, 2009

Peter Graham 1836-1921


The Incoming Storm, 62.2 x 91.4 cm

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Donald Demers - American


Relentless Sea, 24 x 36 inches, oil
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Carolina Surf, 16 x 20 inches, oil
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First Attempt, 24 x 36 inches, oil
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For more of Donald Demers' work see his website:
http://donalddemers.com/index.htm

Image copyright is held by the artist

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Neil Taylor - Australian






Neil uses acrylics.
Some acrylics have an unpleasant plastic gloss to them, but there are some brands that produce a more matte finish.

Jock Young - Australian








Simplification and stylisation in a manner harkening back to modernist painters of the 1930's and 40's.

Peter Anderson - Australian






Black Tip Reef Shark, 36 x 55 cm, 2008

Peter Anderson has sailed the oceans of the world in a yatch.
Sadly, one of the things that he noticed was the surprising amount of garbage polluting them.

Friday, July 17, 2009

John Beard - Australian


Coastal Path, 2008,
Oil and Wax on Linen, 200 x 130 cm
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John Beard has won some of the most prestigious art prizes in Australia.
His use of a subdued, limited palette (often black and white), and nebulous textures (via use of wax) on a large scale, produces an abstract, poetic effect, like that of Far Eastern ink paintings.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Francesco Lojacono - Italian 1841-1915


Sense of tranquility and balance.

Claude Joseph Vernet - French


A mediterranean coastal scene with a shipwreck


detail

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Abstraction


Charlie Baird - Scottish
Gulls, 40 x 45 inches
Source: http://www.charliebaird.co.uk/gulls_3.htm

Though it evokes a recognisable subject, the simplicity of this work pushes it toward abstraction. Abstract elements, such as pattern, can lend visual power to a painting.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

David Alan Redpath Michie


Sails at Walls, 1959

Theodore Gericault - French


The Storm, or The Shipwreck

Georges Lacombe - French


Cliffs near Camaret
Influence of Japanese prints.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Just to let you know I'll be a bit busy for the next few weeks, so may not have time to do much posting.

Lisa Adams - Australian


Sea Study, 41 x 68 cm


Drift, 33 x 61 cm

Lisa is not specifically a marine artist; she does meticulous, enigmatic, slightly surreal landscapes.
She is represented by philip bacon galleries , Brisbane, Australia.