Recently Acquired Gallery Manager, Deanna Dawkins says:
"Mike's paintings always seem so painfully inviting, but this painting leaves me positively aching with longing. Particularly in the depths of January, it provides a momentary, much-needed escape, effortlessly offering the light, warmth and hope of happy summer days to come. Between the cerulean sea and softly swinging shadows of the tree overhead, one is quickly lulled into a blissfully hypnotic and tranquil trance."