Claude Monet wrote (above) : “Beyond painting and gardening, I am good for nothing.” Claude Monet’s garden in Giverny is the holy grail of natural sites for every art lover visiting France. It is where the artist spent the last four decades of his life,...
While my Chéri was on holiday at home, we went to visit the house of the famous Impressionist artist Claude Monet in the nearby village of Giverny. We live a short one hour drive from the village and it was my third visit, but surprisingly my husband had never been...
(All of the photos in this article were taken with my iPhone 6, so the quality is not great, unless otherwise stated). This Summer of 2020, is bizarre and difficult for many people whose businesses are suffering through the current health crisis. Hopefully, it will be...
The Art Shopping Art Fair, Octobre, 2019, Paris. A few weeks ago I exhibited for the first time in Paris at the Salles du Carrousel du Louvre. The Carrousel refers here to a suite of halls under the Louvre museum and the glass pyramid, used for events and exhibitions....
Contempoary Painting. After visiting the Impressionist exhibition that I wrote about here, I went upstairs to see a collection of 70 paintings from the foundation’s collection, which gathered together 23 international artists, from the 1960s to the present day. Figure...
When I visited the LVF on a very hot day a few weeks ago, my objective was to see this exhibition, which has now moved on to Japan. The exhibition presented the collection of the British entrepreneur and art patron Samuel Courtauld, which had not been shown in Paris...
