Rosa Proprina visits the Back Garden in Winter
The beautiful twisted hazel in the garden is a prominent feature in Garden Room – A View from the Interior, where it is seen against the snow through the multiple reflections in the windows of the conservatory that gives the picture its title. To the left a more distant tree is seen against the light of a winter sky filtered through a slatted blind. The Annunciation lily is there too in its role perhaps of mediator between the real and the imagined. The artist’s own work is part of these memories, of course, and to make the link explicit Rosa Proprina revisits the scene and appears in several winter landscapes, one charmingly titled Rosa Proprina visits the Back Garden in Winter, Estella says it’s frost. Estella is Mike and Victoria’s grand-daughter. Snow Moment Visiting Cat and Two Snowmen 152