Norfolk Landscape by Edward Seago, oil on board, roughly 12 x 16 inches (30 x 41 cm). Link is to British art dealer Richard Green. (Click on the image on their site for a larger view.) As of this writing, the painting is for sale, so I don’t know how long this image may remain viewable.
Edward Seago was a British landscape painter active in the early to mid 20th century, and is one of my favorites.
Here, in what Seago might have thought of as a sketch, he gives us a bucolic scene in the east of England, a strong composition with distinct value relationships, muted color and a casual overall feeling.
The painting is naturalistic at first glance, a house beneath trees in the light of a summer day. When you get up close, however, it becomes a joyous riot of physical paint texture and giddy brushstrokes.
Did somebody say painterly? Wow!
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