David Baumforth, Seascapes and wild beaches in 2025

'I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside' is a fine folk song, armour plated as it is by British working class wit and melody. The sentiment - staycation, pretty much - is laudable, but the reality, 118 after the song's inception, is an increasingly dodgy proposition. We as a family were at the seaside last week. We saw it. And at times it was more like sun scorched tourists than smiley, happy people. 

Scarborough Sunrise, David Baumforth

That's not to say the seaside is kaput, only that, in this post pandemic epoch, the seaside is the most obvious option for 66.6 million UK residents, and that leads to bottlenecks that leave even the hardiest of us yearning for less bedlam on the beach (there's another one - 'On the Beach', by fellow Teessider Chris Rea, is even better). 

The North Coast is, by any standards, a marvel. Burrowed between its more popular beaches are Bogle Hole, Hunmanby Gap, Runswick Bay, all relatively immune to the pandemonium engendered by a global pandemic. Our perennially favourite seascape painter David Baumforth has been for the last decade producing collections that would make a twenty something 1st class Goldsmiths graduate blush with pride. The wild light of Filey, Scarborough, Bridlington and the above mentioned beaches are all captured on canvas by a painter who became the favourite of TV art critic Sister Wendy. And there's not a queue at an overpriced cafe in sight.

York born David Baumforth

If you have been put off visiting some of the beaches or you can't due to logistics, well, the portraits of beaches by David Baumforth not only come a pretty close second they are, in 2025 for art collectors with taste and discretion, even better than the real thing. Contemporary Paintings of the North East coast on your walls at home are always a good option.

David Baumforth and his paintings, famously lauded by TV art critic Sister Wendy and the Financial Times's William Packer, both recognising that he stands in the Turner tradition.

As far as we're concerned, 2025 is when David can finally flex his muscles and come up with a bespoke collection that shows everyone – us, his fellow painters, and his growing army of collectors – where he is at, and just how well his practice has blossomed. When we had a gallery, we were always proud to provide modern reasons to come and visit your favourite heritage city (York, that is). Now we're (currently, mind) a gallery without walls we can use this very site to sell what we consider to be the best art of its kind in the UK:

https://accordingtomcgee.com/collections/david-baumforth

 All paintings available for purchase.