This year the Museum of Impressionisms at Giverny is celebrating its 15th birthday with an exhibition devoted to Japanese artist Hiramatsu Reiji. The museum welcomed his work for the first time 11 years ago and it was a huge success. The present show consists of 14 beautiful screens inspired by Monet's water lilies through the different seasons. In total, the 14 screens measure 90 metres. The above detail is part of a six-panelled screen measuring 2 by 5.4 metres: Hokusai's clouds over Monet's pond 2020 pigments and glue on silk Hiramatsu came to exhibit in a Parisian gallery in 1994, when he saw Monet's immersive water lily paintings in the Orangerie Museum. It was a revelation for him. He had until then only seen them in reproduction. The water lilies were Monet's last testament - his gift to the French people at the end of World War 1. The exhibition includes one large square painting of water lilies by Monet. It was quite a radical work in its time, present...