Julie Daniels

The Lost Summer Series

This series of oil paintings is a love letter to a place that has, and always will, have my heart: a small beach overlooking Buzzards Bay towards Cape Cod. The small cottage just up the road was what I always thought of as home, even though we were only there for the summers. It was all I ever looked forward to. A bit of family lore has it that when I was about four after coming home from church, I was nowhere to be found. My garments, however, left a trail down the dirt road to the beach, where they saw me and my bare bottom, just sitting and playing in the waves.

I have always loved sunset, a time of day when it is neither light nor dark; neither day nor night. Sunsets on the beach were especially beautiful and this series is an attempt to freeze time while capturing the serenity of the moment. Since the house is gone and the sunsets are now a memory, these paintings provide me a bit of solace for all the summers lost: past, present and future.