Shimmering Coastal Landscapes

Painting light, mood, and timeless moments along the shore

Woman standing next to her seascape painting of a beach scene with a person and dog near the shoreline, on an easel.

Aruna Rao is a coastal landscape painter based in Florida, creating impressionistic oil paintings that celebrate light, atmosphere, and mood.

Through her signature Shimmer Series, she captures the fleeting brilliance of coastal light — its glow across water, the shifting pulse of atmosphere, and the quiet poetry of shoreline life.

Her work is represented by established fine art galleries in the United States.

Latest Paintings

Walking on Sunshine by Aruna Rao, 18x36 oil painting, impressionist coastal seascape with two figures in shimmering sunlight over water
Drift Into Gold by Aruna Rao, impressionist coastal seascape oil painting with a sailboat on golden water and luminous shimmering light at sunset.
Shimmering Passage by Aruna Rao, impressionist coastal seascape oil painting with sailboats and luminous silver shimmer across the water.
Transcendence by Aruna Rao, impressionist coastal seascape oil painting with a solitary boat and golden shimmer reflecting across the water at sunset.
Shimmering Passage by Aruna Rao – coastal impressionist seascape painting with sailboats and luminous water reflections, styled in an elegant modern interior with lamp and vase of green hydrangeas

Spotlight from the Silver Shimmer Series

Shimmering Passage
40 × 30 inches
Oil on Linen

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