With elegant simplicity and a refined sense of composition, Joanne Short captures the quiet beauty of Cornwall’s south coast in ‘Dinghies and Daisies, Readymoney Cove, Fowey’. This tall-format oil painting draws the eye from a foreground alive with coastal flora — bright white daisies and rich red campion — through to the golden curve of Readymoney’s sheltered beach and the calm turquoise water beyond.

Moored dinghies float gently in the clear shallows, their soft outlines and painted hulls echoing the artist’s precise, decorative style. Above the shoreline, the well-loved cluster of houses nestles into the wooded landscape, rendered in crisp blocks of colour with bold outlines that give the scene a sense of timelessness and tranquillity.

Short’s controlled palette and distinctive flattened perspective evoke the clarity of a summer’s day, inviting the viewer to slow down and take in each considered detail — from the rhythmic shapes of the trees to the joyful exuberance of the foreground flowers.

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Description	Framed Original Painting
Artist	Cornish Artist Joanne Short (born 1967)
Signed by the Artist	Signed by Joanne Short
Painting size	24 x 9 inches
Medium	Oil on canvas
Framed size	29.5 x 14.5 inches
Frame type	The St Ives style picture frame is a Renaissance-inspired cassetta frame, Italian for 'little box', featuring a white stain finish that highlights the wood grain. With a 73mm wide profile and 39mm depth, it creates a recessed central panel, perfect for a timeless, contemporary and elegant display of the painting.
Ready to hang	Strung with picture cord and ready to hang

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