Mar 11, 2026
Media: Watercolor
Size: 7x5 in
Mignonette Strawberry IIFrom the Gardens of Jane Austen Series In the spirit of Jane Austen's own keen delight in the domestic and the natural, this luminous watercolor captures a single mignonette strawberry in its full garden glory at Chawton Cottage. I painted it this morning as the class demonstration painting for a class I was teaching in Franklin, TN. It is the sort of strawberry Jane herself might have written home about — worthy of a line in a letter to dear Cassandra, tucked between news of neighbors and the price of muslin — "and the strawberries, my dear, are really something this year." Mignonette Strawberry IIFrom the Gardens of Jane Austen Series In the spirit of Jane Austen's own keen delight in the domestic and the natural, this luminous watercolor captures a single mignonette strawberry in its full garden glory at Chawton Cottage. I painted it this morning as the class demonstration painting for a class I was teaching in Franklin, TN. It is the sort of strawberry Jane herself might have written home about — worthy of a line in a letter to dear Cassandra, tucked between news of neighbors and the price of muslin — "and the strawberries, my dear, are really something this year." |