Back from São Paulo, we went this evening to Charlotte Verity’s beautiful, small and thoughtful exhibition of John Nash’s, and now Ronald Blythe’s, garden, BOTTENGOMS, which Christine Nash, John’s half-German wife, found deserted down a track in Suffolk in 1943. Charlotte was commissioned to record the garden by the Garden Museum between September 2016 and July 2017 and her watercolours are displayed in an aisle not far from an exhibition of Cedric Morris’s much more showy paintings. I don’t know if I was allowed to take photographs of the work, but did, through the glass, in spite of the (purple) reflections:-
The exhibition is accompanied by a booklet designed by the Ben Weaver studio and with a journal of her visits which is as precise in its observations as her art.




She is a wonderful artist : remarkable that a husband and wife should be so. Has there ever been such a couple before ?
Thanks, Charles! I love Charlotte’s work.
Did you enjoy the Cedric Morris too?
Yes, but am going to other half tonight, so await the verdict. Charles