"The garden ..is incredibly beautiful...full of reds of all kinds, scabious & hollyhocks & mallows & every kind of red from red to lead to black. Pokers are coming out. It's all in very good order & we have masses of plums and apples. I have of course begun by painting some flowers, it seems the inevitable way to begin here." Vanessa to Roger Fry, 6 August 1930
Photos:TravelinaGarden, Charleston, August 2016
Paintings by Vanessa Bell (1879 - 1961)
Dahlias and Canterbury Bells,
Flowers in a Blue Vase, 1951
Still Life with Flowers,
Summer Flowers in a Glass Vase, ca. 1945
Hydrangeas, 1946
Flowers in a Black Pot, c. 1946
Further reading:
Charleston a Bloomsbury house & garden
Quentin Bell & Virginia Nicholson
Frances Lincoln Limited, 1997 London
(quotation p. 134)
Link:
Charleston, Firle, Lewes
East Sussex
