Private
Collection
Collection
Gerald Gardiner
(1902 - 1959)
The Artist’s Studio
Private Collection
Gerald Gardiner (1902 - 1959)
Size:
Height – 71cm
Width – 77cm
Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.135.
These two paintings, which remained with the artist and his wife throughout
their lives, are somewhere between genre paintings and portraits. The setting
for both is the artist’s home Lower Nash End, Bisley in Gloucestershire, where the Gardiners moved in 1934, the year of the Daybed painting. While remaining a purely figurative painter, Gardiner delighted in applying thick impasto, often in pure colours, and had a remarkable ability to capture, in abstract gestures, both natural and artificial light, and the play of reflected light and shadows.
Landscape painter in oil, and teacher. Born in London, he studied at
Beckenham School of Art, under Percy Jowett, 1919-23, then at the Royal
College of Art, 1923-7. Exhibited RA, NEAC, RSA and Cooling Galleries.
During World War if he completed wall decorations for the Cheltenham
Services Club, a year later illustrating Fred Kitchen’s book Jesse and
His Friends. Work in several public collections, including Swindon and
Bristol Art Galleries. Gardiner’s landscapes are notable for their
translucent colour. Lived in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
With thanks to artbiogs.co.uk
