Painting the Modern Garden – From Monet to Matisse

Monet, perhaps the most important painter of gardens, once said he owed his painting “to flowers”. But so many other artists not only created gardens but made them the subject of their work – such as Pissarro, Sargent, Tissot, Kandinsky, Klee, Van Gogh, Klimt and Matisse. The modern garden, transformed by 19th century innovations such as hybridisation, glasshouses and foreign exploration, was part of a great social change to which artists responded from the 1860s onwards. This talk traces the appearance of the garden as a modern phenomenon and the development of new art movements adopting it as their subject.

Dates and Locations

Wednesday 3 September 2025 Tamworth (NSW)

Thursday 4 September 2025 Armidale (NSW)

Tuesday 9 September 2025 Bowral (NSW)

Thursday 11 September 2025 Shoalhaven (NSW)

Wednesday 17 September 2025, Orange (NSW)

Monday 22 September 2025 Narrabri (NSW)

Tuesday 23 September 2025 Scone (NSW)

Thursday 25 September 2025 Sydney (NSW)

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