Lot 587: Louise Hardman, Naive School Beach Scene, Oil on Canvas 62x49

A mid-to-late 20th-century oil painting on stretched canvas by Louise Hardman, depicting a busy coastal scene. The naive-style composition features various figures across a sun-drenched beach, including children playing with a dog, a group building a sandcastle, and a woman in a blue dress seated on a rug with a child. In the background, figures are seen wading into the sea towards a distant red-hulled sailboat on the horizon. The work is characterised by simplified forms and visible brushwork texture. The verso of the frame’s backing paper bears a handwritten inscription in black ink reading Louise Hardman (died 1995) aged 87. The painting is housed in a contemporary silver-toned frame with a textured gold-leaf style inner border and a cream-coloured wooden slip.