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#FridayPainting: Claude Monet “The Artist’s Garden at Giverny”

“Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything,my head is bursting with it.” Claude Monet “Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” Claude Monet “IContinue reading “#FridayPainting: Claude Monet “The Artist’s Garden at Giverny””

#FridayPainting: Claude Monet “Rounded Flower Bed (Cobeille de Fleurs)”

Before Giverny there was Argenteuil. Whenever I think of Claude Monet, I visualize him in his gardens at Giverny. But there was another garden that is pivotal to his narrative and the narrative of Impressionism. In 1874, Claude Monet signed a six-and-a half year lease on a house at Argenteuil, which is located on theContinue reading “#FridayPainting: Claude Monet “Rounded Flower Bed (Cobeille de Fleurs)””

Winter’s Last Song

Spring has come with the confidence of youth, waking a sleeping earth with warmth and a gentle rain. Deep within the soil, seeds and bulbs felt the energy of a new season and responded with bursts of colour, transforming the landscape. First came the crocuses, daffodils and snowdrops, then the tulips, and now the cherryContinue reading “Winter’s Last Song”

Artists in the Garden: Claude Monet

  Winter brings a bitter chill and an invitation to keep a stack of books and a pot of hot tea close at hand.  This is a time of respite and recuperation.  Or so it would appear.  But as every gardener knows, our world is always in transition, at work, even when there is anContinue reading “Artists in the Garden: Claude Monet”