Original Artwork & Paintings - William Rowsell

All the Fun of the Fair is an Original Painting by British artist William Rowsell. The work depicts the helter skelter at the funfair at Weymouth, painted from the shoreline on the beach — the fairground structure rising against the coastal sky, colour and movement rendered in oil. This is...

The Idler is a one-of-a-kind original oil painting of a sailing boat in Bosham harbour by British artist William Rowsell. Painted en plein air on 20 June 2026 in Chichester Harbour, West Sussex, this coastal artwork measures 30.5 × 25.4 cm (12 × 10 inches) and is supplied unframed with...

Golden Hour at Broadstairs is an Original Painting by British artist William Rowsell, painted in September 2018. The work captures the last of the evening light falling across the harbour walls at Broadstairs on the Essex coast — a large painting on stretched linen that took approximately two weeks to complete....

Fishing Boats at Hastings is an original en plein air oil painting by British artist William Rowsell, painted in September 2020. The work depicts fishing boats moored on the famous black-net-hut beach at Hastings, East Sussex — a challenging painting session during which rain fell for an hour before the...

Cursed Spirit is an original charcoal drawing by British artist William Rowsell, created in May 2024. The work is an imagined figurative drawing of a ghostly soul — a balance between realist and abstracted marks in a range of charcoal weights, using the material characteristics of compressed charcoal to create...

Rousham Kitchen Garden is an original charcoal drawing by British artist William Rowsell, captured on location in late summer 2024 at the kitchen garden of Rousham Gardens, Oxfordshire. The view looks back towards the entrance, framed by the ancient yew hedge, with monster thistles reaching for the sky in the...

Horse Chestnut is an original en plein air charcoal drawing by British artist William Rowsell, drawn from life in May 2022. The work depicts William's favourite horse chestnut tree in Ludgershall, Buckinghamshire, captured just as it was coming into flower — the expressive sweep and shape of the tree rendered...

Moby Dick is an original limited edition relief print by British artist William Rowsell, inspired by Herman Melville's novel. Each print is hand-printed on the Albion Press at Oxford Printmakers using water-based black ink on sepia-toned Japanese paper — hand titled, numbered, and signed in pencil by the artist. Supplied...

Golden Pink Haze is an original life drawing by British artist William Rowsell, created in December 2025. The work depicts a seated female figure in a soft palette of pinks and sky blue — drawn in coloured pencil and ink on heavyweight paper, the layers built to a warm, luminous...

Manko in Teal Cloak is an original life drawing by British artist William Rowsell, created in December 2025 at a life drawing session in Lewknor, Oxfordshire. The work depicts William's favourite model Manko in a 30-minute pose — standing in profile, wearing a bold teal cloak, rendered in water-soluble coloured...

Abstract Dance Movement 4 is an original ink painting by British artist William Rowsell, painted live at Ballet Rambert, London in June 2023 — the sixth painting from a Playground workshop session. The work vividly portrays the energy of expressive contemporary dance, capturing movement in real time with large Chinese...

Rousham Kitchen Garden is an original en plein air oil painting by British artist William Rowsell. The work depicts the walled entrance to the kitchen garden at Rousham Gardens, Oxfordshire — looking down through the sculptural yew hedging towards the entrance, the flower beds bursting with colour in high summer,...