Chris Beetles Gallery

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Japanese Garden

Walter Tyndale (1855-1943)

Price

£5,500

Signed

Signed

Medium

Watercolour

Dimensions

7 x 10 ¾ inches

Exhibited

'Three Victorian Travellers', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, March-April 2024;
'Three Victorian Travellers', Mottisfont Art Gallery, Hampshire, January-April 2025

Cherry blossoms are scarce fading before Azaleas are ready to carry on the rich harmonies of colour; and as a passionate love motif begins to weave itself into the end of a symphony's movement before we get it presented in all its full splendour of great crashing notes and full-gathered chords in its final evolution, so the Azaleas begin suavely in shadowy mauve blooms before the gorgeous climax of their scarlet, orange, crimson, and snow-white blossoms bursts forth. Like love, again, the Azaleas linger long, painting the hill-sides from early in May.'

'Then comes the floral month of May, when no artist can paint fast enough - so Mr. Tyndale says- to hope to show on his canvas one-half of the flowers which Nature so prodigally lavishes on the year.'
Japanese Gardens, page 186

Framed