"The Summerlands," is the second installment in a seasonal quartet series, this piece celebrates the abundant life and beauty of Summer. This oil on wood panel embellished with gold leaf, is a celebration of the quintessential summer landscape. The feature of a rainbow serves as a beacon of hope, renewal, and joyful beauty. Hollyhocks, teeming with symbolic connotations of life's circle, ambition, fertility, and abundance, fill the landscape. The figure of a woman, gathering the land's rich bounty, epitomizes the season's essence of profusion and gratitude.