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The painting is primarily a composition relating to quality of light and a sense of the suspended moment.
                                 Sir Harold Peto’s Garden is a unique relationship of architectural design and natural growth.
                                  Sir Harold Peto, was a renowned Edwardian garden designer who was a leading Garden designer in the then
                                 fashionable Italianate School of style.

                                   The sense of antiquity is apparent within the garden and the surrounding valley; taking on a ‘timeless’ state.
                                 The stone statue of a dog reinforces the sense of time suspended; the strong elements of shadows in the
                                 foreground, cast by the columns and trees creates a sense of the moment as likened to a sundial, casting its
                                 shadow across man’s measured period.




















                                                                                                            FG 132275
                                                                                                            View over the Italianate terrace,   Afternoon May.

                                                                                                             Iford Manor - Sir Harold Peto garden, Wiltshire.
                                                                                                             Oil on canvas 40 1/8 x 60 1/8 inches
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