A landscape painting called Wheat Field with Cypresses painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1889 Landscape painting is a well-known type of art that often shows a scene from nature, such as the countryside.

Typically, landscape paintings are more wide than tall, featuring elements of the subject’s scenery as if one paused a movie.

Coffin found herself drawn to the arts, but — by her own assessment — she had scarce talent in the traditional mediums: painting, music and sculpture. So when a friend suggested she explore landscape ...