Corfe Castle

Corfe Castle

Jeremy Gardiner’s Corfe Castle series, in my personal view, is the finest work of art inspired by the ruins of Corfe; certainly, no artist has tried so hard to capture the experience of the site or been so imaginative in his presentation to an audience. Over a period...
Ballard Point

Ballard Point

Topographically, Ballad Point is a long headland in the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, which forms the northern edge of Swanage Bay. In Jeremy Gardiner’s paintings, its ‘noble contour’, as the painter Paul Nash described it, becomes a dramatic metaphor...
Harbours and Havens

Harbours and Havens

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. In Harbours and Havens are paintings that revisit and re-present subjects, reflecting the...
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....