A retired GP has recreated a famous masterpiece of a devoted couple looking out to sea – as a giant drawing on her favourite beach using a garden rake.<br /><br />Claire Eason, 55, spent four hours painstakingly drawing the image on Beadnell Bay in Northumberland before the tide washed it away. <br /><br />As a birthday surprise for one of her friends, Claire used her skills to recreate a giant version of a 19th century Skagen painter.<br /><br />The masterpiece, entitled ‘Summer Evening on Skagen Beach’ was originally painted by Peder Severin Kroyer in 1899.<br /><br />Claire took up art after moving from her home in Worksop, Notts., to be closer to her favourite Northumberland beaches.<br /><br />She said: “I wanted to surprise a friend for his 80th birthday who told me his interest in the Skagen group of artists. <br /><br />“I looked through their work and found the Peder Kroyer Summer Evening on Skagen Beach painting. <br /><br />“The scene looked very Northumbrian to me, and the elegant couple with their black dog.<br /><br />“I traced the figures out on paper and mapped out how I would recreate it on the beach in time for the tide to lap up close to the couple.<br /><br />“The piece lasted about an hour before the tide came in but that is part of the magic of beach art.”
