Strata 2018

In Strata, the echoes arising from repeated depictions become apparent when Gardiner’s five paintings of a site are placed alongside one another, although this is not necessarily how he would choose to display them. Painting en plein air, in Strata’s early stages, he...
Paintings on Paper process

Paintings on Paper process

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...
Paintings on Panel process

Paintings on Panel process

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, recognised for...