Week 15 - Chateau Carrouges
So here I am this week in a garden in Northern France and we are in the grounds of the Chateau Carrouges. Its a beautiful, structural kind of garden with lots of formal shapes, not a lot of colour but a whole variety of really geometric trees and plants and the way the plants have been planted in the beds is also very structural. It reminds me quite a bit of the garden from the Medieval garden as well as the secret herb garden from Edinburgh.
Below is an example of the Rose garden, showing you the geometry I mention above.
Rose Garden, Chateau Carrouges, Northern France
The Rose Garden, Chateau Carrouges, Northern France
More of the beautiful formal shapes, which I intend to use the actual structure of to form the composition for my painting.
I have used this method before, with this particular painting, Winter Blues. Its based around three big circles that form across the middle of the painting. You can’t see it in here, and that’s the intention. Its not meant to be a geometric painting - its just meant to be the bones that you hang the actual painting on. So whilst it wont look like a geometric painting, this is the method I’ll use to create the composition for this painting based on the gardens of Carrouges.
So I hope you enjoyed this blog and I hope you saw the comparisons to the other gardens I mentioned. It will certainly be a painting with lots of geometry in it, lots of shapes and I look forward to sharing it with you.
