Washington-based artist Andy Eccleshall describes his work as representational atmospheric landscape art, often drawing from principles of tonalism. His oil paintings have a soft, subdued palette, capturing a sense of quiet and calm.
“I think there has been a slow but intensifying focus on the ambience of landscape,” he says of his progression as a painter.
Fresh Perspective, oil on canvas, 30 x 30"
“I find myself concerned more and more about the air affecting the elements of landscape than the elements themselves.”
Fresh Perspective, for instance, depicts a rainy, windy day on the Washington coast, waves drifting gently onto the shoreline beneath a pale blue sky. “My goal with this painting was to capture the openness and the sense of vulnerability, with no shelter and a vast expanse of mist filled sky rolling in off the Pacific. The little patch of blue in the top right corner suggests a respite from the rain and helps to balance what is intentionally a very minimal composition.”
Lone Crow Tree, oil on canvas, 36 x 36"
Inspiration for the artist can be found everywhere, every day. “I am constantly watching the sky and the landscape, watching for the unusual or the dramatic,” he says. “I think the thing that probably ties all of my work together is the search for the unusual.” 
Andy Eccleshall works on a painting in his studio in Edmonds, Washington.
Eccleshall continues, “I find I am much less drawn to a beautiful sunny day and a meadow of flowers than I am a squall set against a brilliantly lit barn, or a misty day where you can’t tell where the land ends and the sky begins. I watch out for the days where the light is good and the sky is talking.” —
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