The first is Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose by John Singer Sargent. He was a half Italian, half American Impressionist - they weren't all French - and this was painted whilst he was staying in the English Cotswold village of Broadway. We share the same birthday - the day - not the year I hasten to add!
The first time I saw it I was mesmerized, and - without sounding too over the top - I really felt as if I could walk into painting, a bit like Mary Poppins! The way he captured the warm light glowing from the lanterns in the dusk of a garden is so beautiful. You have to see in the flesh to appreciate its real beauty, I think it is still on permanent display at The Tate Gallery in London.
Lilies are my favourite flowers in the garden too and I grow them in pots just by my french doors so that their spicy scent of drifts into the sitting room on the warm evening air!
If this is the first time that you have seen this beautiful painting then I'm pleased to have introduced it to you and I can't wait to show you more...
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