Comments
- “Gardiner's paintings reveal both the permanence of a place and the contradictory ways in which different people will experience it. One person may see the Point as a place for a picnic, another as a hazard to shipping; diverse professional interests may identify it as good farm land or a prime site for holiday housing; a child's perception of its size will differ from an adult's; blistering sunshine or a howling gale will produce different but definitive sensations that may be attached to it for a life-time. Gardiner understands that all these reactions are fictions that embody truths; rather than seeking an essential Ballard Point he celebrates its multiple fictions, with their changing truths.”
Margaret Garlake
- "This is exquisite work, with material, colour and line combining to create something more richly suggestive and totemic than the merely figurative - this is the essence of landscape".
Ian Dejardin, Director, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
- "These beautiful paintings manage to evoke the spirit of an island which is rich in historical associations".
Professor Richard A. Fortey FRS. The Natural History Museum, London; Author of ‘Earth - An Intimate History’, Knopf
- “Jeremy has walked this coast, ridden it and even flown over it. He has drawn it endlessly, studied deeply its history, its geology and, above all, its palaeontology. All this long experience and innate sympathy, to say nothing of deep and subtle actual observation, he now distils into these remarkable paintings”.
William Packer FT Art critic
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