Famous landscape artists

Famous landscape artists modern
Modern landscape artists
20 famous landscape paintings

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Dave Groom

I believe the best way to capture the essence of the landscape is to live in it. This enables me to observe the constantly changing forms, colours, textures and light at different times of day and to watch the processes of nature.  My work is a personal journey of observing our natural landscape.

 I've always had an interest in drawing and studied art through my school years and continued that interest by completing a degree in Graphic Design. I soon realised I had little interest in a career as a Graphic Designer and after some time of soul searching and travelling through Europe I came home to discover a new awareness of our unique landscape. Its timeless beauty inspired me to start drawing again. This began in 1994. In 1997 I began building my studio, which took 3 years to complete.

I admire Australian landscape artists including Fred Williams, Arthur Boyd and William Robinson. I'm also taken by Jeffery Smart, Georgia O'Keefe and Edward Hopper, all very much landscape artists, with a great ability to contrast the landscape with the human conditi

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Roots in Antiquity
Artists have been painting the landscape since ancient times. The Greeks and Romans created wall paintings of landscapes and gardenscapes. After the fall of the Roman Empire, the tradition of depicting pure landscapes declined, and the landscape was seen only as a setting for religious and figural scenes. This tradition continued until the 16th century when artists began to view the landscape as a subject in its own right. The artistic shift seems to have corresponded to a growing interest in the natural world sparked by the Renaissance.

Rise of the Landscape in the Netherlands
The term "landscape" actually derives from the Dutch word landschap, which originally meant "region, tract of land" but acquired the artistic connotation, "a picture depicting scenery on land" in the early 1500s (American Heritage Dictionary, 2000). The development of the term in the Netherlands at this time was logical because the Netherlands was one of the first places that landscape had become a popular subject for painting. At this time, the rising P

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BIOGRAPHY

I have been a teacher of Art, Design and Photography in a secondary school for 31 years. In recent years I have been developing my own art practice, fitting it around the demands of teaching. In 2025 I have made what feels a giant step by retiring early to devote my time to painting.

My work is inspired by the landscape; I use it to trigger ideas, forms and structures. My paintings are not direct representations but an attempt to represent the feeling of being there, movement, the elements, textures and colours.

My relationship with the landscape perhaps stems from growing up in Cheshire, family walks were a common occurrence. As a young art student I would retrace some of my favourite walks on my own, observing and trying to discover what interested me and how to portray it. I did my degree at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Art, much of the work I developed was from a huge number of drawings I made whilst walking the Sandstone Trail. Following my degree I became a secondary school Art teacher.

My painting renaissance