by ChrisHeirani | Mar 4, 2024
The work you see here results from many hours spent on the coast, making meticulous line drawings, studying weather conditions at first hand and painting en plein air. This is followed by many further hours in the studio, recollecting the moods and emotions felt in...
by ChrisHeirani | Mar 4, 2024
The rocks of Cornwall have a fascinating story to tell that includes tropical seas, deserts, volcanic eruptions and ever changing climate and sea levels. I incorporate man-made structures in my landscapes to give a sense of scale, I think of them in the landscape like...
by ChrisHeirani | Mar 4, 2024
In 2010 Gardiner was Artist in Residence in the Geography Department of the University of Nottingham on a project investigating the Lake District. Gardiner began his residency by considering the legacy of artistic activity in the region, from Thomas Hearne’s tours in...
by ChrisHeirani | Mar 4, 2024
I first saw Jeremy Gardiner’s work in a show called A Panoramic View at Pallant House in Chichester. This ran alongside another, larger exhibition of pictures by John Tunnard, a vaguely overlooked English painter who started life in the 1930s as a Surrealist and ended...
by ChrisHeirani | Mar 4, 2024
The Jurassic Coast is England’s first natural World Heritage Site, a ninety-five mile long stretch of coastline running from Orcombe Point in east Devon to Old Harry Rocks in east Dorset. Its geology spans the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, 185 million...