Contemporary American artist Michael Godfrey is a representational landscape artist whose work hangs in many private and corporate collections. Born in Germany in l958 and raised in North Carolina, he earned a BFA in Fine Arts and began his painting career in oils and watercolors. He spends hours field sketching and photographing, preparing for a well-thought-out painting. Typically, he starts a major work using small oil studies done on location. These field studies provide color accuracy and photographs provide special details. Godfrey composes his paintings from on-site sketches in the field and photographic references. In studio, work progresses in successive layers of paint and light is orchestrated to create a painting that appeals to his internal sense of order.
A landscape artist has to have knowledge of many disciplines (geology, chemistry, physics, architecture), to understand the world in which they are trying to create. An artist must observe with the idea that what is observed must be interpreted and distilled. For a landscape artist, it is just as important what is not included in a work as what is eventually laid down.
“I ask myself, ‘what is the dominant truth – is it color, shape of land forms, or time of day.’ I try to understand what I am seeing, so that the final work will capture the visual emotion.” - Michael Godfrey
Morning Has Broken; Carmel, California
By Michael Godfrey
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist. Signed "Michael Godfrey" on lower left FRAMED: 30.75" x 42.75" x 1.375" UNFRAMED: 24" ...
Canvas, Oil
Morning at Rocky Point
By Michael Godfrey
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Signed "Godfrey" on lower right FRAMED: 12.25" x 15.375" x 1.75" UNFRAMED: 6" x 9" Exhibited Monumental Miniatures 202...
Oil, Panel
Morning Surf, Garrapata
By Michael Godfrey
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Signed "Godfrey" on lower right FRAMED: 14.25" x 14.25" x 1.75" UNFRAMED: 8" x 8" Exhibited Monumental Miniatures 2022...
Oil, Panel
$1,339Sale Price|20% Off
H 24 in W 34 in D 1 in
Lake District Cumbria Landscape Fine English Oil Painting Open Panoramic View
By Arthur Terry Blamires
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Great Gable and Black Sail Youth Hostel Emmerdale" by ARTHUR TERRY BLAMIRES (b.1930) signed and dated, 1995 oil painting on canvas, framed canvas: 20 x 3...
Canvas, Oil
$1,507Sale Price|20% Off
H 25 in W 35 in D 2 in
Farmhouse by a River in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Farmhouse by a River in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist, Peter J Greenhill Art measures 30 x 20 inches Frame measures 35 x 2...
Canvas, Oil
$1,281Sale Price|20% Off
H 17 in W 21 in D 2 in
Young Boy Fishing in River with Cottage in Wild Meadow in English Countryside
Located in Preston, GB
Young Boy Fishing in River with Cottage in a Wild Meadow in the English Countryside by British Artist, Les Parson Art measures 16 x 12 inches Frame measu...
Canvas, Oil
$1,671Sale Price|20% Off
H 22 in W 28 in D 2.5 in
Moody Dawn Mist with Winter Trees in a Rural Village in the English Countryside
Located in Preston, GB
Moody Dawn Mist with Winter Trees in a Rural Village in the English Countryside by British Artist, Kevin Curtis (1958-2009) Art measures 24 x 18 inches F...
Canvas, Oil
$2,177Sale Price|20% Off
H 21 in W 27 in D 2 in
Mountain Lake Oil Painting of a Loch in the Scottish Highlands by British Artist
By Andrew Grant Kurtis
Located in Preston, GB
Mountain Lake Oil Painting of a Loch in the Scottish Highlands with two boys fishing with their dog, by British Artist, Andrew Grant Kurtis M.A.(Lon) B.Des.(Hons) L.S.I.A.D. Art measures 24 x 18 inches Frame measures 27 x 21 inches As an artist of both classical and traditional style, Andrew Grant Kurtis excels in his paintings of english landscape...
Canvas, Oil
Twilight in Venice. sunsets
Located in Oslo, NO
The painting depicts a corner of Venice in the Cannaregio district. The day is fading, the houses standing in the water of the canals are immersed in twilight. The sky closer to the ...
Canvas, Oil
"Far Away, " Oil Painting
By Joseph McGurl
Located in Denver, CO
Joseph McGurl's "Far Away" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a vast landscape of valleys and mountains in the distance under the orange and yellow glow of sunrise or...
Oil, Panel
$1,500
H 17.5 in W 13.5 in D 1 in
Sterling Peonies: framed contemporary oil painting of pink & white flowers
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is a beautifully framed contemporary floral still-life oil painting of pink and white peonies in a sterling vase in a traditional style by Pennsylvania artist Sharon Henderson. ...
Oil, Panel
"Tramonto" Olio su tela cm. 10 x 10 2025
By Luisa Albert
Located in Torino, IT
Piccola opera con tramonto arancione, di Luisa Albert Firmato sul retro e certificato di autenticità
Canvas, Oil
Lavender Rose
By Jeffrey Vaughn
Located in Fairfield, CT
There is a sense of freedom that I experience when painting landscape. The quality of these kinds of images allows for expression and interpretation, yet they can still be viewed as...
Oil, Wood Panel
$800
H 8 in W 10 in D 1.5 in
Sandia (Watermelon) Surreal Emerging Artist National Academy of Art of Uruguay
Located in Houston, TX
Carlos Duarte is an emerging young artist at the National School of Fine Arts Institute in Montevideo, Uruguay. The gallery has taken on several pieces from several students at the...
Oil, Panel
Winter Venice
Located in Oslo, NO
The winter Venice landscape is painted from life. It is a view from the spit of the Grand Canal to the Giudecca Canal and the embankment of the same name in the distance. In the haze...
Canvas, Oil