As the day’s end draws near, and the hustle and bustle of the waking hours lessens, the denizens of Somewhereanywhereville begin to make their way homeward in Paul Horton’s ‘Days of Love’.

And that love is – to paraphrase a popular song made famous by a movie soundtrack – quite evidently all around, judging by the preoccupation of the artist to capture the romance of clearly defined couplings on this canvas.

Take for example the loving aged couple passing the shoe repair shop. And the young couple and their dog sat at the table outside the Coffee Lounge.

And the mother and her young daughter approaching the florist’s façade. The universally popular contemporary artist is undoubtedly fostering a sense of togetherness and human unions; a distinct and time and generation-encompassing bond betwixt young and old, male and female. Horton’s willingness and enthusiasm for textured pastel colours is prevalent in this comforting composition that helps ease our troubled and oft-complex lives and remind us that love both gels and conquers all whence we invite it back in from the cold of society.