by ChrisHeirani | Jul 11, 2024 | Projects
Gardiner has observed, during trips to ancient locations, visits to the British Museum and more recently to the new Acropolis Museum in Athens, how different cultures have used murals to cover walls with subjects related to their own history. Examples can be found in...
by ChrisHeirani | Apr 22, 2024 | News
Visit Portland Gallery Website ‘Every one of the paintings I made along the coast depicts a sense of atmosphere and weather and I am trying to harness the sensation of the different seasons by exaggerating shapes, forms and colour. A landscape never looks the...
by ChrisHeirani | Mar 25, 2024 | News
‘Harbours and Havens neatly captures the subject of Gardiner’s paintings: the south coast of England, which he has been patiently, creatively, exploring for over three decades. What is new here – as well as works made in 2023 – is the opportunity to see how his...
by ChrisHeirani | Mar 23, 2024 | Studio Practice
My landscape paintings are a way of interpreting marks in time and distilling them down to convey a story in symbolic form. For the paintings, I start with slabs of raw poplar panel. Renaissance artists used native poplar wood panels for altarpieces, recognized for...
by ChrisHeirani | Mar 22, 2024 | Studio Practice
The paintings on paper are layered with materials and paint and carved back in ways that evoke geological processes, with subjects covering an array of landforms along the South Coast of England.The compositions start with line drawings, topographical interpretations,...