Douglas Percy Bliss:
Winter, Artist's Garden, 1953
Framed (ref: 10542)

Oil on canvas

25 1/3 x 29 1/2 (64.5 x 75 cm)

Signed and dated

Tags: Douglas Percy Bliss oil Garden landscape trees Garden Museum

Provenance: The Artist's Family

Literature: Gargoyles & Tattie-Bogles: the lives and work of Douglas Percy Bliss and Phyllis Dodd, Fleece Press, 2018,

In the summer of 1945 the Blisses made  their final move to Hillside Cottage in Windley village ... a scattering of houses along a single lane rising up through the Derwent Valley; this was to become Bliss's own Valley of Vision like Samuel Palmer’s in Shoreham.
(We are grateful to Malcome Yorke and Simon Lawrence, for allowing use of the above quote which appears in the Fleece Press Publication, Gargoyles & Tattie-Bogles, 2017.)

Exhibited: Sanctuary, Artist-Gardeners, 1919-39, Garden Museum, London, 25th February – 5 April, 2020

Literature: Christopher Woodward, Sanctuary: Artist-Gardeners, 1919–1939, published by Liss Llewellyn, 2020