Christopher Witchall

Southwold Beach, Original painting, Landscape, Seascape, Beach

2023

Stony Beach is a small realist oil painting on gesso panel, 8 x 10 inches (approx 20 x 25cm). Inspired by visits to the Suffolk coast town of Aldeburgh, Christopher Witchall continue...

At The Edge of The Ocean is a beautiful realist seascape oil painting, measuring 30 x 30 inches (approx 76 x 76cm). The viewer is looking directly out to sea from the standpoint of t...

The Beach Aldeburgh, limited edition giclee print. These stunning prints are created using fine art archival quality inks and canvas with three layers of UV varnish to protect the a...

Afterwave By Christopher Witchall is a realist seascape oil painting, measuring 30 x 40 inches (approx 76 x 101cm). The viewer is looking directly out to sea from the standpoint of t...

Beach Scene, Norfolk Coast, Oil on Board Painting by Peter Greenham 1909-1992 Additional information: Medium: Oil on board 18.5 x 30 cm 7 1/4 x 11 3/4 in Signed with initials Provenance Jonleigh Gallery, Surrey Peter Greenham was a distinguished figurative painter of portraits, landscapes and incidents from domestic life. His work was both sensitive and intelligent and like himself, without showiness or pretension. He was keeper of the Royal Academy Schools and a popular figure who taught many well-known artists including Martin Yeoman, Peter Kuhfeld, Edmund Fairfax-Lucy and Jane Corsellis. Greenham was born in Streatham and educated at Dulwich before studying English at Magdalen College, Oxford, followed by Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art in Kensington from 1936-39 under the supervision of Ernest Jackson. After leaving Byam Shaw he became a schoolmaster at Magdalen College School, Oxford and was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1951 and an R.A. in 1960. In 1964 he succeeded Sir Henry Rushbury as Keeper of the Royal Academy Schools, a position he held with distinction until his retirement in 1985. The Keeper has the responsibility of running the RA Schools and Greenham showed himself to have great sympathy and understanding for his students. In retirement he was able to concentrate entirely on his painting and tended to paint places he knew well such as the Norfolk coast, Northumberland, Oxfordshire and Annecy as well as his wife, the painter Jane Dowling...

‘Having first pursued my interest in landscape through photography and urban design, I have turned to landscape painting. This has led me to become a more analytical observer of the ...

Mundesley Beach, Norfolk, Oil on Board Painting by Peter Greenham 1909-1992 Additional information: Medium: Oil on board 19.1 x 26.7 cm 7 1/2 x 10 1/2 in Initialled Provenance Jonl...

Chatham Beach contemporary landscape painting During a coastal summer, the beach can be a welcome escape from the high heat and humidity. As the sky turns hazy with a touch of green,...