The precious flowers, drifting, their movement almost imperceptible, over the liquid blue-green surfaces of the artist’s Water Lilies paintings, evoke a dreamy contentment, as if the world is in slow ...

Speaking to Radio York, she said The Water Lily Pond, which was painted in 1899, was a "really recognisable, well-loved painting". Dr Bertram added: "The closer you get, the more abstract it gets.

“I had chills all over to sing in that room, while seeing those paintings IRL for the first time. “‘True Love Waits’, like the Water Lilies, went through decades of versions and ...