Peter Rostovsky

FJW from a Sotheby's Sale

Frederick Judd Waugh: Breaking Waves 
Rocky Coast and Sea

Hermitage Museum

Works from the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg:

Ivan Aivazovsky
Kaspar Friedrich
Hendrik Sorgh (detail)
Simon de Vlieger
Rockwell Kent

Stanhope Forbes and the Newlyn School

A group of artists, known as the Newlyn School, gathered around Forbes and his wife Elizabeth (also a painter) in the West Cornwall fishing town of Newlyn at the very end of the 19th century.

Many of the Newlyn painters had previously spent time in Brittany, where they had imbibed the French style of rural realism that became central to the Newlyn philosophy. The early genre works in particular employ the characteristic square brush technique, producing an effect of simplicity and solidity, befitting the subjects.

From an Upcoming Christie's Sale

Edward Moran, Fishing Boat in the English Channel, 45 x 32 inches
William Trost Richards, Brigantine Shoals, 27 x 20 inches
Frederick Judd Waugh, Surf on the Roaring Main, 30 x 40 inches  

Joel Rea

Joel is an Australian artist who lives on the Gold Coast of Queensland; a region famous for its surf beaches.

Though it had very little physical effect here, The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami made a big impact on the collective psyche of the predominantly coastal-dwelling people of Australia. Our nearest neighbour, Indonesia, was devastated, with the loss of an estimated 167, 000 lives.

www.joelrea.com.au

June Carey

June Carey is an American land and seascape painter and wife of the late maritime artist David Thimgan (see below).

These compositions work so well because, if you divide the image in half vertically or horizontally, each half contains a balance of the two main elements - rock and water.

june carey arts