The marine scenery is incomplete without corals. Sea fans or gorgonians are closely related as well as look very similar to corals but most marine enthusiasts know the difference between the two.
Sea fans are also like underwater flowerbeds and have different sizes, shapes, and colors. Sea fans are natural works of art. Many artists take on
framed sea fan art to try to capture its beauty on canvas or photograph.
Tandi Venter in his works Coral Impressions I-IV takes the familiar shape of sea fans, paints it red, and puts these on top of a wise choice of color combination of brown, cream, and white. In all the art pieces, there are also quite a variety of different layers of subtle objects such as shells, starfishes, and sand patterns. As such, the
framed sea fan art pieces evoke a kind of eccentric beauty in them and shows Venter’s take on his impressions of beach and coral-centric art.
In Paul Brent’s Sea Fan I and Sea Fan II, he paints a sea fan in red and shows a single yellow fish swimming around it in a black background. The simplicity of both pieces is nothing short of beautiful and both pieces have a kind of romantic beauty to them. The color combination of red, black, and yellow all contribute to making the framed sea fan artwork very relaxing to look at but complex enough for art lovers to appreciate as well.
The many Sea Fan pieces of Mary Margaret Briggs may be dismissed by some as simple and insignificant but upon second look; one can see the amount of attention to detail that Briggs has put in making them. The branching off of the sea fans are very difficult to paint with such detail but Briggs does so very beautifully and carefully.