About

Gardner is a contemporary landscape painter with integrity and passion. She paints landscapes from moments of visual memory infused with joy and texture. Her paintings have been shown with galleries, art centres and art fairs and are collected both in the UK and beyond, also having been sourced by interior designers for large hotels and collectors. She has been painting landscapes and exhibiting for the past 20 years.

My paintings begin without a fixed plan. They emerge from feeling, finding their own way toward what feels right. Rooted in landscape, they often shift into something stranger—places that resemble inner terrains rather than recognisable views.

I work intuitively, following lines and responding to materials as the painting unfolds. Fragments of collage enter the work along the way: pages from fairytale and nature books, children’s drawings, sand gathered from family holidays. These elements carry personal meaning and memory, quietly embedded in the surface. At times, words and drawn marks appear, tracing thoughts, emotions, and fleeting states of mind.

When a painting reaches completion, it often reveals itself as being about something remembered—an experience or moment from the past that has surfaced through the act of making. Many of the works are joyous, alive with movement and clear, luminous colour. Others are like walks: a process of looking, pausing, and bringing together different aspects of a place.

Surfaces are built up thickly, worked and reworked, as if the painting is trying to come right—to arrive at its own truth—while remaining open to the unexpected. These works are like wild places that appear in dreams: difficult to explain, yet deeply familiar. They are made from what I have seen, what I imagine, and what I long for—places I once knew as a child, and places that exist only in memory and possibility.