Tag: seascape painting

Victoria Curling Eriksson creates atmospheric oil paintings that move between seascape, landscape, and emotional memory, transforming coastlines, skies, forests, and shifting light into deeply calming visual experiences. Living on the northwest coast of Skåne in Sweden, surrounded by sea and woodland nature reserves, she paints entirely from intuition rather than photographs or sketches, allowing colour, atmosphere, and feeling to guide each work as it slowly develops through layered oils. Her paintings often begin with only an emotion or palette in mind, gradually evolving over many thin layers into compositions filled with…

Valeria Ocean creates luminous oil paintings that transform waves, reflections, and shifting light into emotional landscapes suspended between realism and abstraction. Rooted in childhood memories of annual trips to the Black Sea, her connection to water became less about depicting a place and more about expressing inner emotional states through movement, atmosphere, and texture. Working with a deliberately limited palette, often just four or five tubes of paint, she builds meditative surfaces where subtle shifts in light and color carry a remarkable sense of depth and calm. Rather than painting wide…