Claude Monet spent the last 43 years of his long life at Giverny, creating the paintings and gardens for which he is so revered. In more than 140 beautifully designed illustrations, come explore these remarkable grounds, and see Monet as a consummate plantsman who composed his garden with an Impressionist’s care for color and form. Paintings, engravings, and garden views from his time and today reveal how he shaped the physical world to his outstanding imagination.
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Caroline Holmes is a writer, garden designer, garden historian, consultant and lecturer. She has appeared frequently on television and radio as well as lecturing and running workshops. French gardens, and Giverny in particular, are a special interest - she takes many tours to Giverny each year and will be taking the Herb Society of America there in 2001. Caroline Holmes lives in Denham, Suffolk.
Caroline Holmes is going to be participating in the Dartington 'Ways with Words' literary festival on Sunday 20th July. 'If you love your garden and obsess over colour then you'll adore 'Monet at Giverny' by Caroline Holmes. This beautifully illustrated book portrays Monet's outstanding planstmanship, his obsession with gardening and colour as well as a wealth of horticultural detail. Sectioned into chapters of 'The Man', 'The Garden' and 'The Paintings' this is a book which encompasses all three equally brilliantly and can be relished by both gardner and Monet fans alike.' ESSENTIAL WATER GARDEN, July '03 'In this beautifully illustrated paperback exploration of the gardens, Caroline Holmes considers the influences that shaped Monet's life and vision. Biographically incisive, it shows the artist as a consumate plantsman who composed his garden with care for colour and form, and then re-interpreted it into his
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