This is a small framed ink and watercolour drawing titled 'Monet's Water Garden' by Ian Pethers RBA, signed on front, C.1990. 

It is a view of Claude Monet's Water Lily Pond in Giverny with flag irises and a boat in the foreground and a Japanese bridge covered in wisterias and a weeping willow in the distance.

Dimensions: Frame - 34 x 28 cm 

Image - 19 x 13 cm 

Condition: This ink drawing is in excellent condition. Ian Pethers usually signs (in addition to the front) and dates the reverse of the painting but as the painting has not been removed from its frame we are unable to confirm this. It is presented in its original mahogany-coloured wooden frame which is in very good condition.

Biography: Ian Pethers was born in 1956 in London and took to painting at an early stage. His first major work was ‘Unloading Coal in Romney Lock’, which was exhibited and sold at the Royal Society of Marine Artists’ Exhibition in the Mall Gallery in 1985. In 1989 he was elected a member of the Society of Botanical Artists. He moved to Cornwall in 1990 and has since illustrated several national hotel guides, designed book covers and has designed posters and maps for the local railway network. In 2003 Ian was elected a member of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters and has won two awards for his miniature paintings of woodlands and Cornish mining relics.

His work is sold in a number of Cornwall based art galleries where individual pictures typically sell in the £250 to £400 range.