Research point - Artists working in series with the landscape

What does making art in a series mean? Art business has a good explanation here

Anna Dillon has done many landscape paintings which she groups into series by English Counties such as Oxfordshire. Her style is very simplified and colourful, but stops short of becoming a cartoon of the landscape. Theres a sort of 1920's feel about them, reminiscent of the lovely posters for the underground. Nicholas Herbert takes things to the other extreme with paintings that merely suggest the landscape that inspired them, more Turner influenced

There is a nice piece with illustrations here from the Metropolitan Museum of Art which documents the work of Monet who painted Paris and the Normandy landscape. I also found a link which collects together 40 paintings by Cezanne. I do like Cezanne and he does keep cropping up in my research.

Much has been made of David Hockney's series of landscape paintings of Yorkshire but I prefer his earlier work Bolton Junction Eccleshill or Moorside Road Fagley. The paintings I prefer combine reality (the houses look like houses) with simplicity, blocks of colour, loose lines and human figures that are sketchy enough to look like they have been caught in movement. I've just watched an interesting documentary on BBC 2 which shows some of his paintings of the same trees at different times. Shown sequentially they make more sense to me than they did looking at them individually online This is the link though it only works until 20th March 2015

Peter Doig's Pond Life and Cobourg 3 are part of a series of cold themed landscapes although he has done other warmer pictures such as Pelican. Pond life's my favourite it is deceptively simple but there is so much going on. The colour palette is lively, not too realistic but not too bizarre or harsh, and there are figures in there too to add interest.

John Virtue paints semi abstract pictures which are based on real places. They are usually in black and white although there are some coloured paintings shown in this collection from the BBC. I admire the way he can be so loose and abstract but still somehow figurative. It's also nice to see someone successfully working without colour. There are some nice big skies in there too, I particularly like View of Green Haworth from the North.