Summer flowers by Vanessa Bell.

"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

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Link:
Charleston, Firle, Lewes
East Sussex