Contraband

Contraband

‘Every time I paint the southwest coast,’ says Jeremy Gardiner, ‘it’s from a new viewpoint.’ The paintings brought together under the title of Contraband explore the coasts of southern England in relation to their long-standing and notorious connection with smuggling....
Sussex landscapes

Sussex landscapes

It is these layers of landscape which, through his scientific approach, Jeremy Gardiner is able to evoke in his paintings. The texture of the works is unique and considered, each one referencing both the geological and man-made effects on landscape. His working method...
Drawn to the Coast

Drawn to the Coast

In Gardiner’s paintings we find the same sensation as when walking among mountains – of man’s staggering insignificance, and the consequent sense of liberation at being so small and so transitory an episode in the greater scheme of things. Gardiner includes...