Fenendael Selected to Paint at Monet’s Giverny Garden

“Floral Ala Monet” by Ed Fenendael.

Ed Fenendael thought he reached the pinnacle of his career in 2008 when he was invited to display watercolors at Atelier Galerie Letoliacha in Giverny, the French village that was the home of Claude Monet. “The opportunity for my work to have an ongoing presence there was a dream come true,” he says.

Now, Fenendael is one of nine artists invited to paint in Monet’s Giverny garden for three days in mid-September as part of the 10th International Plein Air Paint Days. “This invitation was totally unexpected,” Fenendael says. “Wonderful things continue to happen.”

The public will be free to stroll among the artists as they work in various locations in Giverny, including the famed garden, which draws more than 5,000 visitors a day, Monet’s pink house, the Ancien Hotel Baudy, and the hillside overlooking the village, near the churchyard where Monet and his family are buried.

The 500 residents of Giverny will be invited to a champagne reception on the final evening, when paintings will be displayed at Moulin des Chenniveires.

Fenendael visited Giverny often to work on his own and to conduct classes for students travelling with him. He has also taken student groups to Provence and Normandy in France and to Tuscany and Sicily in Italy. In October, Fenendael returns to Italy to conduct classes in Tuscany and Umbria.

Fenendael has been designated as one of the Top 100 Artists in the U.S., and in 2008, the Door County Art League named him Door County Master Artist of the Year. His paintings have won honors in numerous art shows, are part of corporate and private collections and can be found in numerous galleries, including his own Morning Mist Studio at Windmill Farm in Baileys Harbor.