“British artist Barbara Peirson uses paint to devise the stories she sees conjured in the landscape around her. Painting enigmatic figures into her charming scenes leaves the viewer grasping to capture the transient moment portrayed. Whether real or imagined, the elusive narrative often feels reminiscent of faded tales and memories.

Initially having trained as an actor, it’s easy to understand why narrative is so instinctually woven into the fabric of Barbara Peirson’s paintings. She likes to depict her figures in motion, as though stumbled upon halfway through a development with no sense of what the conclusion might be. Since these ‘stories’ are built around old photographs and memories her snap-shot style of painting is most certainly a fitting portrayal.

Before bringing in her characters, Barbara Peirson assembles her scenes often drawing on her surroundings for inspiration. Living along the North Sea shore in Essex, she begins her day strolling down the estuary sketching the exhaustive changes of light, land and wildlife. It’s here in nature that the foundations of Barbara Perison’s work takes shape, allowing an immediacy of place to be felt and captured. Back at her studio, the paintings are given the time and space to evolve and the additions of figures, uprooted from mind and photographic material, begin to appear.”

This is the Seascape art page from Red Rag British Art Gallery featuring the best in contemporary British art. Throughout the year Red Rag features British art from artists who specialise in creating fine Seascape paintings. Today is no exception you will find Red Rag British Art Gallery has an extensive collection of Seascape art and paintings by leading contemporary artists.

Human beings have always had an intimate relationship with the water. Given the amount of the earth’s surface which is covered in water and the often unpredictable and life-changing nature of the sea, it is little wonder that seascapes have been such a popular subject for so long and no surprise that seascape paintings have an important place in the history of art.

Seascape paintings have a long history in both the Eastern and Western worlds.The walls of homes have been adorned with seascape paintings since the art of the secular painting first began to overtake religious works in numbers and importance.

As a country with an extensive coastline, paintings of seascapes have always had a special attraction to British artists. All the seascape paintings at Red Rag showcase the talent of British painters and their ability to depict changing light on water and rapidly altering climatic conditions. Many of the British artists who have painted these seascape paintings are also talented landscape painters, or worked in other genres as well as seascapes, such as still life or portraiture.