CONTRABAND | Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester | 5 March – 1 April 2022
‘Contraband’ captures the landing points along the South Coast that were the haunts and hideouts of smugglers in the Eighteenth Century. This latest series of paintings explore the seaside towns, fishing villages, beaches and coves of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Sussex, famously immortalised in the poems and novels of Daphne Du Maurier, J. Meade Faulkner…
Chengdu Biennale – Superfusion | Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art, China
Chengdu Biennale – Superfusion Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art Sichuan Province, China 6 November 2021 – 4 April 2022 Chengdu, the capital of China’s Sichuan province and the central hub of southwest China is a metropolis of seventeen million people. In August 2021 two new museums opened covering an area of 70,000 sq meters. Superfusion…
Unsettling Landscapes: The Art of the Eerie | St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery
Sceptred Isle St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery New St, Lymington SO41 9BH 18 September – 8 January 2022 Painting ‘Pegwell Bay, Kent, a recollection’ – 2019 Acrylic and Jesmonite on poplar panel 55cm x 79cm “The eerie represents a counter-narrative to the recognisable traditions of the picturesque and the pastoral in British place-art.…
Concrete Castles: Britain’s War Defences of 1940 | Aug-Dec, 2021
Concrete Castles: Britain’s War Defences of 1940. Bodmin Keep, Bodmin, PL31 1EG 27 July – 4 December 2021 Worbarrow Bay and Mupe Bay from Flowers Barrow, Dorset 60cm x 89cm Britain’s World War 2 defence structures, especially pillboxes are found on the coast and in the landscape. The painting ‘Worbarrow Bay and Mupe Bay from…
Linleys Belgravia: Recent Work on Display
You can see a selection of Jeremy Gardiner’s paintings at Linley Belgravia. Courtesy of The Nine British Art. LINLEY BELGRAVIA 60 Pimlico Road, London, SW1W 8LP OPENING HOURS Monday to Saturday from 10am to 5.30pm (GMT) Phone: +44 (0)207 824 7223
Painting along the coast on the Isle of Purbeck | August 2020
Gardiner painting plein-air, Kimmeridge, Dorset ‘As a painter I remain responsive to coastal subjects and over time instinct, impulse and observation have shaped my visual language. Through the language of paint, an interpretation and metamorphosis of landscape takes place, sometimes combining the simulation of the real with the ambiguity of the abstract.’ Gardiner painting plein-air,…
Gardiner talks about his painting of Peveril Point, Swanage
Watch interview with Jeremy Gardiner The artist talks about his painting of Peveril Point, Swanage, Dorset. The setting is Lymington’s newly refurbished St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, where the exhibition South by Southwest took place in March 2020. The exhibition is finally coming down, after a successful season that ended the day before lockdown. Watch…
Marbling is the art of floating pigments
Marbling is the art of floating pigments and dyes on water, and transferring those patterns onto paper. Here the mobility of the water and suspended pigments create amorphous shapes and patterns. It is possible to transfer these forms onto the same paper more than once, thus layering and deepening the marbled pattern and creating greater luminosity…
South by Southwest | Exhibition Update
St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington, Hampshire SO41 9BH. We are sorry to announce that the exhibition South by Southwest will not be going to Falmouth Art Gallery after all, as we too join other exhibition spaces, museums and galleries, in continuing to provide content online. You can see all of the paintings here,…