▲ Duncan Grant Garden Path in Spring, 1944, oil on canvas, 36x32¾in. (91.5x83cm). The estate of Duncan Grant. All right reserved, DACS, 2023. Photo: Tate. The painting depicts part of the estate at Charleston where Grant lived and worked with the painter Vanessa Bell
Gardening Bohemia: Bloomsbury Women Outdoors at the Garden Museum, Lambeth Palace Road in London is the first exhibition to explore the gardens of the Bloomsbury group. The work on show focuses on the writer Virginia Woolf and her garden at Monk’s House; the garden and studio of her sister, the artist Vanessa Bell at nearby Charleston; Garsington Manor, home to arts’ patron and photographer Lady Ottoline Morrell; and Sissinghurst Castle gardens created by garden designer and writer Vita Sackville-West. The exhibition will include photographs, paintings, textiles, garden tools, manuscripts and correspondence, which tell the stories of these women and their interweaving lives. The exhibition runs from 15 May to 29 September. For more information visit www.gardenmuseum.org.uk