This painting is all about that first properly warm day at the beach, when the umbrellas go up and the sand fills with colour.

Azure Whispers is a quiet painting, built from the softest end of the blue palette.

Turquoise Dreams began with the colours of shallow water on a still, bright day.

Some paintings are about a place; this one is all about colour and texture.

Every spring, jacaranda season paints Queensland and much of Australia in shades of purple.

Some beach days are all about softness: pale sand, gentle light and umbrellas in candy colours.

There's a particular kind of happiness in a long summer day by the water.

Some days are made for the beach: warm golden sand underfoot, a cloudless blue sky and a scatter of bright umbrellas as far as you can see.

There's nothing quite like a long, lazy day at the beach in the middle of summer.

A celebration of blossom season in bold colour: in this impressionist oil painting, clusters of white cherry and plum blossom open along dark, slender branches that sweep down from the top of the canvas, each stem picked out with bright flashes of blue.

That summer holiday feeling in impressionist oils, with a wide turquoise sea, a soft white cloud bank and a cheerful scatter of colourful beach umbrellas on white sand.

Hampton Beach on the New Hampshire seacoast, with the green Boars Head headland, turquoise water and a crowd of colourful beach umbrellas, in textured impressionist oils.

A sunny summer day on Coronado Beach, San Diego, in textured impressionist oils, with the red turrets of the Hotel del Coronado, white sand, colourful umbrellas and soft turquoise water.

An Australian red-tailed black cockatoo in rich cobalt and ultramarine blue with thick impasto and gold speckles, against a coral-red ground with a white chinoiserie rose pattern.

An old jacaranda in full spring blossom, with a twisting trunk beneath a canopy of purple, violet, periwinkle and sky-blue flowers in thick, textured impasto.

A soft, romantic butterfly painting: overlapping butterflies in pale pink, blush, rose, mauve and dusty plum, their wings edged in shimmering silver against a clean white ground.

A wide oil painting of a crowded summer beach: palette-knife umbrellas in turquoise, coral, lemon yellow and sky blue, and a bright turquoise sea. Panoramic coastal wall art for a Hamptons-style living room.

Two round discus fish — vivid orange and soft periwinkle blue — in thick impasto on a textured white ground. Suits Hamptons-style and coastal kitchens, and coastal dining rooms.

An aerial view of a quiet tropical shoreline — pale sand, soft turquoise water, and colourful umbrellas in easy holiday light. Ideal for Hamptons-style and coastal living rooms.

An aerial view of a busy summer shoreline — turquoise sea, pale sand, and spiral beach umbrellas in bright coastal colour. Ideal for Hamptons-style and coastal living rooms.