Summer Landlines | 36" x 24" 30x30 Towering clouds painted in soft

Towering clouds painted in soft blues

with the rising smoke rendered more thinly and softly than the denser paint used for the trees and ground below

adding a traditional touch of elegance and a contemporary element to the piece

where even trees might lift their branches in silent melody to the stars

Summer Landlines | 36" x 24" 30x30 Towering clouds painted in softAbout the Artwork Summer Landlines is a 36" 24" oil on canvas by Steve R. Coffey. Coffeys paintings often draw from prairie settings, using layered colour and textured mark making to interpret the shifting conditions of land and sky. In this work, a pair of telephone poles stands below a broad, luminous sky, providing a quiet vertical structure against a wide horizontal field. The composition places a dark green and brown horizon along the lower edge,