Paul Horton is a naive artist par excellence but he is also adapt at the sweetest kind of nostalgia, as he paints a picture of a Northern England housing estate, which harps back to simpler times.

'Fenton Hardware' store must be a nod to the BBC series 'Open All Hours' with a slimmer Arkwright (Ronnie Barker) talking to whom could be Nurse Gladys Emmanuel (Lynda Baron) in the grey coat - but wait a minute is that Granville (David Jason) on a bike in the foreground? Unusually that bike is not loaded sky high with deliveries, so he is danger of getting a clip round the ear from Arkwright for wasting time!

I love the cute little 'The Bakery' on the right, displaying it wears in the shop window and the old fashioned opened back delivery van (painted green), parked up for a few moments just off centre.

This is Paul progressing his art and 'Make My Day' is really a blend of his High Street shop scenes such as 'Friday Street' (2014) and housing estate scenes such as 'One Small Step For Man' (2019) - with shops now being painted into his housing estates and some still exist like this up north, to this day!

This is the canvas board version and is wonderfully hand finished.