Monet's Giverny

Oil, 61 x 51 cm, Autumn 2004, private collection of Astrid Vogelaars

Astrid and I had a pact that one day we will be sitting together sipping tea in our pokka dot dress with large sun hats, chatting about the stories of our life in the shade in the garden of Giverny . She hangs this painting in her living room in Belgium and her 10 year old daughter Helen brought it to school one day for her show-and-tell project on Claude Monet ( 1840 - 1926 )