Unfolding Landscape – Vertical
by ChrisHeirani | Mar 4, 2024
In recent years, Gardiner has predominantly created intaglio monoprints, a painterly form of printmaking in which each impression is unique as the etched plate is worked individually, adding colour or wiping the ink differently each time a print is pulled. Even in an...
St Agnes to the Lizard
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...
Representing the Past
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...