Beach Boys And Girls II by Rebecca Lardner

This picture can’t help but lift your mood. Put a smile across your face. Elevate your spirits. There’s an unbridled joy and ever-present pleasure that rises up and out of this canvas that simply exudes life, love and human compassion.

It would melt the coldest of heart and lighten the darkest of atmospheres. Which makes this life-affirming composition pretty much standard Rebecca Lardner fodder when all’s said and done. Lullaby pastel tones and belonging, restful waters, sloping street furniture and ambivalent sea birds all testify to this being a stock Lardner expression of coastal restraint and charm.

Sunbathers jostle for canvas accommodation with trawlerfolk returning from a successful haul, while flocks of gull and puffin watch over crooked harbour architecture and a generous spread of happy clappers descending on the distant street.

A picture perfect landscape by a master craftswoman thriving and evolving in her charming artistic element.