by ChrisHeirani | Feb 5, 2024
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...
by ChrisHeirani | Mar 7, 2022
‘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....
by ChrisHeirani | Mar 14, 2020
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...
by ChrisHeirani | Mar 2, 2017
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...
by ChrisHeirani | Mar 2, 2014
Gardiner can be seen as part of an older tradition in his selection of coastlines and islands as subject matter. The Dorset and Cornwall coasts, and the islands of Fernando de Noronha, are all appealingly ‘unspoilt’. Their geological features and the hardness of their...