Jeanne Lanvin

Édouard Vuillard

EDOUARD VUILLARD, 1933. DISTEMPER ON CANVAS.

Vuillard was a Nabi. A member of the semi-secret, semi-mystic group of artists who met at apartments and coffee shops in the late 1800s, plotting a revolution of art by stripping it down to its most base elements. Yet Vuillard’s ambitions and influences could not be contained, and when the group splintered and split up at the turn of the century, he found a new freedom of expression. Integrating a love of Japanese art, theatre and set design and decorative arts, he returned to interior scenes he had painted as a Nabi with a newfound vigour. Vuillard matches his subject with their surroundings, spending more time in the exterior world around them than on the subject themselves. Here, the fashion designer Jeanne Lanvin exists in exquisite harmony with the room, each object, detail, brushstroke of the interiors reveals something of Lanvin’s interior life.

Monday 6th July

As the Moon moves into Pisces, the garden is drawn into a softer, more watery mood. Pisces brings the Moon into a realm of moisture, sensitivity, and inward movement, strengthening the living fluids of the plant. This is a good time to tend to leaf crops, water where needed, sow or transplant leafy plants, and give care to anything that depends on freshness, sap flow, and gentle growth. Lettuce, chard, brassicas, herbs, and pasture all respond well to this kind of influence. After the more earthy pull of recent days, Pisces brings a loosening and softening. The soil may feel more receptive, the plants more open, and the garden more easily nourished through water, rhythm, and quiet attention. A day for the development of leaves, and listening to the rhythm of the garden as it ebbs and flows.