Oil Painting

Oil paintings has a deep, rich look that comes from slow drying colors and the way artists can blend tones for hours. The medium lets painters build soft glows, sharp edges, or thick layers that almost stand off the canvas. This section shows artists working with oils to create scenes that feel warm, detailed and sometimes a bit dramatic, even if the brushwork looks simple at first glance. That slow drying time is part of why oil has stayed the go to medium for so many painters over the centuries, since it gives real room to rework a passage until it feels right. Explore this section for oil paintings ranging from tightly rendered realism to loose, expressive brushwork.

Scott Naismith | Oil Painting

Scott Naismith is a Scottish painter who turns dramatic skies into bold, non literal bursts of color and hope. Drawing on Turner’s atmosphere and Matisse’s color, he now flies drones to find new abstract shapes in the landscape, blurring the line between altitude and ground.
Jeffrey T Larson | Oil Painting

Jeffrey T Larson is an American painter working in the classical realist tradition, known for still lifes, figures, and portraits built on careful drawing and quiet natural light. Trained at Atelier Lack, he now paints and teaches from a converted schoolhouse in rural Wisconsin.
Ettore Tito | Oil Painting

Ettore Tito was an Italian painter who filled his canvases with the light and life of Venice, from busy markets to mythological scenes. He taught painting at the city’s Accademia for more than thirty years and showed at nearly every Venice Biennale between 1895 and 1914.
Alexander Bartashevich | Oil Painting

Alexander Bartashevich is a Belarusian painter known for quiet, timeless still lifes of clay, brass, glass, and porcelain. He strips away decoration so objects seem to breathe in soft half light, turning simple things into echoes of memory.
Romona Youngquist | Oil Painting

Romona Youngquist is an American painter whose soft, impressionist scenes of Oregon’s Red Hills feel more like memories than places. She works her canvases with sandpaper and rags as much as a brush, drawing on the vineyards and old farmhouses around her home in Dundee.
Justyna Kopania | Oil Painting

Justyna Kopania is a Polish painter known for thick, textured oils that mix expressive realism with impressionist feeling. Her large canvases, built around series like Carmen and Masks, focus on memory, music, and the inner life of her subjects.
Leon Roulette | Oil Painting

Leon Roulette is an American painter working in the Impressionist tradition, chasing the same soft glowing light that drew painters to the style a century ago. He paints everywhere from Alaska to Venice, and once worked as an artist for Disney and Warner Bros.
Andrew Macara | Oil Painting

Andrew Macara is a British painter known for bright, joyful scenes where light itself feels like the real subject. Largely self taught, he was elected to the New English Art Club in 1984 and has since explored more abstract studies of reflections on water and ice.
Dilshad Questani | Oil Painting

Dilshad Questani is a Kurdish French painter whose warm, glowing canvases carry the memory of fighting as a peshmerga and fleeing into exile. Now settled in France, he paints in earthy browns and radiant yellows that he calls the colors of freedom and peace.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler | Oil Painting

James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter who spent most of his career in London, championing tonal harmony and the idea of art for art’s sake. His famous portrait of his mother and his sharp, combative wit made him one of the most talked about artists of his time.
Tina Spratt | Oil Painting

Tina Spratt is a British figurative painter drawn to quiet, intimate moments and the soft fall of light across a room. Working in oils and pastel from her studio in Somerset, she has been a three time finalist in the ARC Salon and won the Pastel Journal’s Pastel 100 competition.
Sofiane Dey | Oil Painting

Sofiane Dey is a young Algerian painter trained at the Fine Arts school in Batna, known for warm scenes of heritage and daily life. He mixes knife, brush, and oil to give his paintings a dreamy softness, and has won prizes in Algeria since his first show in 2010.