Established landscape painter Terry Watts, has been a member of the prestigious Royal Society of British Artists since 2006. His fascination with landscapes was first explored through photography, after which he moved towards painting as a means of expression that could better capture the subtleties of color, texture and light.
Watts began his artistic studies at the Camberwell College of Art before moving to the Hammersmith College of Art, both based in London. Having gained a degree in the sciences followed by work in the field of education, he returned to the art world to work on large, sculptural landscape projects for the London Docklands Development Corporation, Merton Borough Council (home of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships) and British Gas. These commissions promoted a full-time move back toward the arts, at which point Watts began exhibiting in solo shows across England and joint shows in the United States, the Netherlands, Scotland and Ireland.
Though traditional in style and elementary in his choice of medium (acrylic paint on paper), Watts’s creations truly capture the starkness and majesty of the Great British countryside. Most notable are the clouds that crown the landscape. Like many esteemed British painters, this uncertain face of nature is of huge inspiration and Watts’s sublime representation of the ever-changing skies has seen him awarded various accolades, including Guest Prize at the Laing Landscape Competition, two first prizes at the London City Airport Competition, the Buzzacott Best Picture award at the Royal Institute and the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition.
(Biography provided by London Contemporary Art Gallery)
Seasalter Mud - contemporary seaside beach landscape acrylic painting
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 ...
Canvas, Acrylic
Boat with Cloud - contemporary landscape sky cloud acrylic painting
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 ...
Acrylic
$1,633
Light Surf, Chesil Beach - contemporary seaside beach landscape acrylic painting
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 ...
Canvas, Acrylic
$3,004
Four Go Paddling in Camber Sands - contemporary seaside beach landscape painting
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 many forces operating in the environment and our responses to them. The paintings are unusually wide perspective, precisely rendered, yet also contain freely created elements. I attempt to use composition and light to generate a twenty-first century perception within the continuing tradition of landscape painting.’ Terry...
Canvas, Acrylic
Grey Dawn with Boats - contemporary seaside beach landscape painting
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 many forces operating in the environment and our responses to them. The paintings are unusually wide perspective, precisely rendered, yet also contain freely created elements. I attempt to use composition and light to generate a twenty-first century perception within the continuing tradition of landscape painting.’ Terry...
Acrylic, Paper
A Rock in the Mud - contemporary landscape seaside painting acrylic on paper
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 ...
Paper, Acrylic
Estuary in Changing Weather - contemporary seaside beach landscape painting
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 ...
Canvas, Acrylic
Sand and Sky, Weymouth- contemporary seaside beach landscape painting
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 ...
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,185
Whitstable Grey-contemporary acrylic airbrush painting seascape clouds boat sea
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 many forces operating in the environment and our responses to them. The paintings are unusually wide perspective, precisely rendered, yet also contain freely created elements. I attempt to use composition and light to generate a twenty-first century perception within the continuing tradition of landscape painting.’ Terry...
Acrylic, Paper
Barn in Winter Dawn - contemporary seaside beach landscape painting
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 ...
Canvas, Acrylic
Beach in Low Visibility - contemporary seaside beach landscape painting
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 many forces operating in the environment and our responses to them. The paintings are unusually wide perspective, precisely rendered, yet also contain freely created elements. I attempt to use composition and light to generate a twenty-first century perception within the continuing tradition of landscape painting.’ Terry...
Canvas, Acrylic
Improving Visibility - contemporary seaside beach landscape painting
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 ...
Paper, Acrylic
East of Golden Cap - contemporary British landscape acrylic painting Dorset
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 ...
Canvas, Acrylic
On Chesil Beach - contemporary acrylic British landscape painting Dorset
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 many forces operating in the environment and our responses to them. The paintings are unusually wide perspective, precisely rendered, yet also contain freely created elements. I attempt to use composition and light to generate a twenty-first century perception within the continuing tradition of landscape painting.’ Terry...
Canvas, Acrylic
Sun Through Clearing Clouds - contemporary rural landscape acrylic painting
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 ...
Acrylic
$1,633
Verge -contemporary photorealistic landscape acrylic sunny field painting framed
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 ...
Paper, Acrylic
Quiet Afternoon Whitstable - contemporary seaside beach landscape painting
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 ...
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,458
Walk in Changing Weather - contemporary seaside beach landscape acrylic painting
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 many forces operating in the environment and our responses to them. The paintings are unusually wide perspective, precisely rendered, yet also contain freely created elements. I attempt to use composition and light to generate a twenty-first century perception within the continuing tradition of landscape painting.’ Terry...
Canvas, Acrylic
Gulls on Chesil Beach - acrylic cloudy Dorset seascape painting on paper
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 ...
Acrylic, Paper
Sea Wall Medway
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 ...
Acrylic
$3,004
In Winter Light Portland - contemporary photorealisitic seascape painting clouds
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 ...
Canvas, Acrylic
$3,265
H 35.44 in W 51.19 in D 0.79 in
Mountains 16 January 10:41 - Modern Nature Landscape Painting
By Robert Motelski
Located in Salzburg, AT
Robert Motelski's paintings are exceptional visions of nature, visions of space which surrounds us. They tell about being, fate and passing. They depend on the season of year, the ti...
Canvas, Acrylic
$3,383
H 27.56 in W 25.6 in D 0.79 in
Between the Landscape and Geometry - Modern Woven and Painted Abstract Artwork
By Marta Pokojowczyk
Located in Salzburg, AT
Between the Landscape and Geometry, hand weaving, linen yarn, wool, acrylic textile paint, 70 x 65 cm, 2024. There is a second painting from this series - my other article here, mat...
Textile, Cotton, Linen, Yarn, Acrylic, Wool
$1,895
H 15.75 in W 31.5 in D 1.97 in
Save Haven 6 - 21st Century Contemporary landscape painting
By Joost Verhagen
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Joost Verhagen Save Haven 6 45 x 85 cm Acrylic paint on canvas We ship worldwide for free in a wooden crate, framed as seen on the pictures. Because of the constantly changing pric...
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,895
H 15.75 in W 31.5 in D 1.97 in
Save Haven 7 - 21st Century Contemporary landscape painting
By Joost Verhagen
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Joost Verhagen Save Haven 7 45 x 85 cm Acrylic paint on canvas We ship worldwide for free in a wooden crate, framed as seen on the pictures. Because of the constantly changing pric...
Canvas, Acrylic
$4,777
H 11.82 in W 15.75 in D 1.97 in
Island Entertainment - 21st Century Contemporary Imaginary Landscapes
By Michiel Schrijver
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Michiel Schrijver 'Island Entertainment' 30 x 40 cm (Framed included in price 34 x 44) acryl on canvas Dutch Painter Michiel Schrijver lives and works in the center of the Netherla...
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,107
H 13.39 in W 23.63 in D 0.79 in
Light 18 September - Modern Minimalistic Landscape Painting, Sea View
By Robert Motelski
Located in Salzburg, AT
Robert Motelski's paintings are exceptional visions of nature, visions of space which surrounds us. They tell about being, fate and passing. They depend on the season of year, the ti...
Canvas, Acrylic
$4,839
H 19.69 in W 39.38 in
Furstemberg 2 by Guillaume Chansarel - Urban landscape painting, Paris cityscape
By Guillaume Chansarel (Guiyome)
Located in Paris, FR
Furstemberg 2 is a unique painting by French contemporary artist Guillaume Chansarel. The painting is made with Ink and acrylic on old book pages mounted on canvas, dimensions are 50...
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Magazine Paper
$1,983
H 24.02 in W 29.53 in D 1.19 in
Forest in Lilac, Provence, Mixed Media on Paper, Signed, 61x75 cm
By Francis Besson
Located in Cotignac, FR
Contemporary mixed medium on paper of a forest scene in Provence, France by Belgian artist Francis Besson, signed bottom right. Presented in oak 'case' ...
Paper, Acrylic, Pastel
$4,491
H 25.6 in W 31.89 in
Jacques II by Guillaume Chansarel - Contemporary Painting, Paris Street at Night
By Guillaume Chansarel (Guiyome)
Located in Paris, FR
Jacques II is a unique painting by French contemporary artist Guillaume Chansarel. The painting is made with ink and acrylic on old book pages mounted on canvas, dimensions are 65 × ...
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Magazine Paper
$300
H 5 in W 5 in D 0.07 in
Splash Of White - 5"x5" - Artwork On Paper, Delicate Flowers, Botanical Art
By Andrea Stajan-Ferkul
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
Splash Of White - This original artwork on watercolour paper captures a loose, expressive arrangement of delicate white flowers in a glass vase. Layering of acrylic and oil pastel wi...
Paper, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
$4,777
H 11.82 in W 15.75 in D 1.97 in
The Silent Balcony - 21st Century Contemporary Imaginary Landscapes
By Michiel Schrijver
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Michiel Schrijver 'The Silent Balcony’ 30 x 40 cm (Framed included in price 34 x 44) acryl on canvas Dutch Painter Michiel Schrijver lives and works in the center of the Netherland...
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,107
H 15.75 in W 20.87 in
Light 22 April 11:23 - Modern Minimalistic Landscape Painting, Sea View
By Robert Motelski
Located in Salzburg, AT
Robert Motelski's paintings are exceptional visions of nature, visions of space which surrounds us. They tell about being, fate and passing. They depend on the season of year, the ti...
Canvas, Acrylic
Sold
H 39.38 in W 39.38 in D 1.19 in
Before the Downpour - contemporary landscape painting
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 ...
Acrylic, Canvas
Sold
H 12.21 in W 35.04 in D 1.19 in
In Early Light, Dorset - contemporary seaside beach landscape painting
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 many forces operating in the environment and our responses to them. The paintings are unusually wide perspective, precisely rendered, yet also contain freely created elements. I attempt to use composition and light to generate a twenty-first century perception within the continuing tradition of landscape painting.’ Terry...
Paper, Acrylic
Sold
H 23.63 in W 23.63 in D 1.58 in
Storm Line - contemporary seaside beach landscape painting
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 many forces operating in the environment and our responses to them. The paintings are unusually wide perspective, precisely rendered, yet also contain freely created elements. I attempt to use composition and light to generate a twenty-first century perception within the continuing tradition of landscape painting.’ Terry...
Canvas, Acrylic
Sold
H 19.69 in W 39.38 in D 1.58 in
More than Fifty Crows- contemporary seaside beach landscape painting
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 ...
Canvas, Acrylic
Sold
H 23.63 in W 23.63 in D 1.58 in
Summer Cloudburst - contemporary seaside beach landscape painting
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 ...
Canvas, Acrylic
Sold
H 23.63 in W 23.63 in D 1.58 in
Dartmoor in Low Cloud III - contemporary seaside beach landscape painting
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 ...
Canvas, Acrylic
Sold
H 24.02 in W 48.04 in D 1.58 in
Above Ringstead - contemporary seaside beach landscape painting
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 many forces operating in the environment and our responses to them. The paintings are unusually wide perspective, precisely rendered, yet also contain freely created elements. I attempt to use composition and light to generate a twenty-first century perception within the continuing tradition of landscape painting.’ Terry...
Canvas, Acrylic
Sold
H 23.63 in W 48.04 in D 1.58 in
Sea Wall Oare - contemporary landscape beach seaside acrylic painting
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 ...
Canvas, Acrylic
Sold
H 25.99 in W 33.47 in D 1.19 in
Blue Lagoon Pembrokeshire - contemporary landscape painting British seaside
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 ...
Canvas, Acrylic
Sold
H 23.63 in W 23.63 in D 1.58 in
Entrance Portland Harbour - contemporary realistic British landscape painting
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
Artist's statement: ‘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 analyti...
Canvas, Acrylic
Sold
H 27.17 in W 33.86 in D 0.79 in
We Started in Sunshine - acrylic airbrush painting stormy landscape framed
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 ...
Canvas, Acrylic
Sold
H 17.33 in W 24.81 in D 1.19 in
On Shining Mud - contemporary photorealistic acrylic airbrush painting framed
By Terry Watts
Located in London, GB
‘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 ...
Acrylic, Paper