“The Soul of the Rose” — DAILE x John William Waterhouse

Inspired by Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem “Come into the garden, Maud”, Waterhouse’s painting is filled with quiet yearning.
A single moment - a scent, a memory, a face remembered in the mind’s garden.
His Pre-Raphaelite brushwork renders not only the scene, but the emotion behind it.

“Each flower holds a memory — not of what was, but what could’ve been.”