This is the story of Monet as expressed through his personal letters as he painted.

From award-winning director Phil Grabsky comes this fresh new look at arguably the world's favourite artist - through his own words. Based on over 2500 letters and narrated by Henry Goodman, I, Claude Monet reveals new insight into the man who not only painted the picture that gave birth to impressionism but who was perhaps the most influential and successful painter of the 19th and early 20th centuries.