The garden behind the paintings - Giverny

I've written about Monet and his gardens before - at some length - but this is the first time I've been able to show readers what Monet's garden at Giverny actually looks like.

Below you can find two videos. You can imagine you're Monet is you like (if you ignore the noise from cars and other visitors!) and take

• A walk around Giverny - #1 The Water Garden - a non-stop walk around the perimeter of the water garden at Giverny. It was 12 minutes but I've snipped and shaved it down to 2 seconds under 10 minutes
• A walk around Giverny - #2 The Clos Normand (the flower garden) - the walk back up to the house through the Clos Normand (flower garden) to the door into 'la maison'

These are links to the photos I took which are on Flickr

• Monet's water garden, Giverny
• Giverny - Clos Normand

Below you can also see a drawing I'm still working on of the water garden at Giverny - based on a sketch of the same scene.

(Work in Progress) The Water Garden at Giverny
9" x 12", coloured pencils on Arches HP
copyright Katherine Tyrrell

You can also read about my visit to Giverny on 1st October this year over on Travels with a Sketchbook - in The Water Garden at Giverny

For people who have not read about Monet and his gardens before, here's a note of my previous posts on this blog about Monet and gardens:

Giverny

• Gardens in Art continues - with Monet
• Gardens in Art: Monet and the flower garden at Giverny
• Gardens in Art: Monet and the water garden at Giverny
• Gardens in Art: Monet's final Nympheas
• World record bid for Le Bassin aux Nymphéa by Monet
• Why and how Monet developed his series paintings
• Monet's Nympheas in the Musée de l'Orangerie

Other gardens painted by Monet

• Gardens in Art: Monet and Argenteuil
• Gardens in Art - Monet and Vétheuil
• Gardens in Art: Monet and the Mediterranean

Note - Of course if you were really Monet you'd have both sets of big green doors wide open and you'd walk back across the road rather than using the tunnel under the road which is now a lot busier than it was when he lived there!