Summer Landlines | 36" x 24" 30x30 Turquoise water and mirrored trees

Turquoise water and mirrored trees create a strong horizontal foreground beneath the rising mountains

evoking the serene skies of dawn and dusk

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

The painting is filled with vibrant detail—brilliant flowerbeds stretch across the foreground

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

Summer Landlines | 36" x 24" 30x30 Turquoise water and mirrored treesAbout 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,