Old Oast Houses

Half seen, half imagined - old oast houses 

Oast houses are one of the most distinctive and beloved features of the English countryside - those round towers with their conical caps, built for drying hops, now standing as quiet monuments to a rural way of life that has largely passed. This painting begins with observation and ends with imagination, blurring the line between what was seen and what was felt - the oast houses emerging from the landscape as much from memory and mood as from direct sight.

It is a painting about the way certain buildings and places exist in the mind as much as in reality - half glimpsed through trees, half reconstructed from everything you know about them and love about them. Painted in watercolour on archival cotton paper, it has the soft, luminous quality that suits a subject poised between the real and the remembered.

About this original artwork

• One of a kind - this is a unique, original painting. Once it's gone, it's gone
• Depicts old oast houses - half observed, half imagined, emerging from the English countryside
• Medium: Watercolour on archival watercolour cotton paper, 640gsm
• Size: 8.5 x 12 inches (21 x 30 cm)
• Requires framing under glass - supplied unmounted, ready for a frame of your choice
• Signed by the artist
• Supplied with a Certificate of Authenticity

Collecting original art

Owning an original painting means owning something no one else in the world has. This piece was painted entirely by hand by Marta Stolarska - every cowl and rounded tower considered with care, the line between seen and imagined deliberately, beautifully blurred. It arrives ready to frame and treasure.

Old oast houses, half seen through the landscape, half conjured from memory - a painting about the England that stays with you.