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,...
by ChrisHeirani | Mar 21, 2024 | Studio Practice
The term intaglio (from the Italian intagliare, meaning ‘to carve or cut into’) covers a multitude of processes using metal plates for traditional techniques, such as engraving, etching, collograph and many other additive techniques, among them Carborundum and epoxy...
by ChrisHeirani | Mar 20, 2024 | Studio Practice
I engrave my topographical line drawings into Aeroply to define the boundaries of my composition. To achieve a full-value dark from a collograph plate, I apply an evenly textured surface to the plate, like an aquatint, that will hold enough ink to print well. The...