by ChrisHeirani | Mar 4, 2024
Gardiner belongs within the strong and enduring tradition of English landscape painting exemplified during the last century by painters such as Paul Nash, John Tunnard, Ben Nicholson and Peter Lanyon. He shares their passionate attachment to place, and has even worked...
by ChrisHeirani | Mar 4, 2024
Sourced from the Dorset County Museum’s archives, the fossils (found objects twice over) become a physical form of quotation in the prints, a way of re-presenting the past that finds a parallel in the work of Walter Benjamin. ‘I needn’t say anything. Merely show’, he...
by ChrisHeirani | Mar 4, 2024
A generous offer was made to me in 2017, “would I like to spend some time living in a lovely cottage near Lewes, with studio space if needed?” The timing was ideal because in 2015 I had embarked on South by Southwest, a five-year voyage round the south coast of...
by ChrisHeirani | Mar 4, 2024
South by Southwest is a journey to explore our coastline from Ilfracombe in north Devon to St Margaret’s Bay in Kent, looking afresh at the harbours, bays, coves, castles and follies that characterise the remarkable shoreline of the south coast and encountering a...
by ChrisHeirani | Mar 4, 2024
The Tintagel of Merlin and Arthur is a magical place to commence the five-hundred-mile adventure of the South West Coast Path. Deep in these cliffs lie veins of tourmaline, a dark rock with a subdued and milky gleam. Expert cutting and polishing releases a dazzling...