Travel with Angela Lansbury: Two exhibitions hidden in Changi Airport, Singapore, Marvellous Monet, and cats in colour and cartoon style

My family member was looking for a Starbucks for a coffee in Changi airport.

He pointed out something interesting. Starbucks is landside, at arrival. So when you get off and are waiting to be collected you can have a coffee.

He was looking at the restaurant area, which is usually upstairs on the terrace. Beyond the restaurants he found a Monet exhibition.

Claude Monet

Not originals but nonetheless very interesting. Paintings showed the different seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. Plus Monet's comments. Although he is best known for his paintings of his garden, with the bridge over the water and the lily flowers floating, he painted many more subjects.

The big surprise to me when I saw a Monet at the art gallery in Switzerland, was the size of it. The painting stretched wall to wall. I don't know how he painted it. He either had a huge studio, or did it in sections.

Monet's garden in France.

Cats

Beyond that was another exhibition which would appeal to children. cats. Cats with clothes expressions like human beings. The artist is Louis Wain.

The largest collection of Claude Monet's impressionist paintings is in Paris, France. But you will find his paintings everywhere, from Boston to Buffalo and Washington DC and San Francisco in the USA, Tokyo in Japan, Cairo in Egypt, Switzerland, and many other countries.

Louis Wain led an extraordinary life, with touches of tragedy, and financial ups and downs, illness and mental illness in the family. He is credited with making cats popular as pets.