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"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers"      Claude Monet

“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers” Claude Monet

By Amanda on May 16, 2010

Call me an old romantic but I’m a bit of a sucker for tulips.  I love the way they are transformed from tight bud to over-the-top bloom, with an intensity and depth of colour almost unparalleled in the plant world.  It’s no wonder so many painters love them, though it’s not easy to capture the luminescence and silkiness [...]

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