The Artist's Blog

Using her studio as a base, artist Caroline Zimmermann often ventures out into the Tuscan countryside in search of the perfect light and composition for her creations. [...]

The dance of the damselflies continues for two weeks and then is over until the next year, when the squad of beauties returns to re-enact one of the tiny marvels of Nature once again. [...]

For more than twenty years artist Caroline Zimmermann has scoured the out-of-the-way corners of the Italian countryside in search of the perfect "Tuscany landscape painting". [...]

To paint it I would have had to kill it, and that would have been a shame since the animal was so beautiful. [...]

I had just turned the soil of compost in a section of my veg garden, making preparations for a pumpkin patch, when a most astonishing sight was revealed to me. [...]

Caroline's love of poppies and fascination with bees come together in this entertaining video filmed in her Tuscan garden as spring bursts forth. [...]

“Fear always springs from ignorance” Ralph Waldo Emerson [...]

The Horror! Could this really be one of the first of these invasive species now here in our part of Tuscany? The Asian Giant Hornet Vespa Mandarinia. Also known as the “Murder Hornet”. [...]

"You're not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop." - Rumi [...]

In this ode to peonies, Caroline recites one of her favourite poems as she harvests flowers from her Tuscan garden and creates her latest peony still life painting. [...]

Georgia O'Keeffe said, "When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment". [...]

In anticipation of her exhibition in Santa Fe in September, Caroline decided to reacquaint herself with the work of Georgia O'Keefe and became inspired to paint a series of massive floral paintings. [...]

I could not help but wonder how the magnificent lavender fields of Provence would be... might they also be well along? [...]