Jeremy Gardiner

Book Review: The Art of Jeremy Gardiner Unfolding Landscape

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JG bookMy review of Jeremy Gardiner’s beautifulnew book is out now in the Art Quarterlymagazine. Read a PDF here.

Jeremy Gardiner (1957- ) aims to help us experience the changing face of the earth through his art and to this end has spent decades exploring the ancient history of the Jurassic Coast. This book calls his art A vision of landscape as an inscribed tableau of ancient geological or man-made patterns (Peter Davies). The results of Gardiner’s study of place lie within this handsome hardback, which situates him firmly within the history of the great English tradition of landscape painting stretching from Constable to Nash.

See also my previous article about Gardiner’s digital art practice here.

Virtual Landscapes Made Tangible

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Jeremy Gardiner, St Aldhelm's Head, 24 x 17 cm, 2012, 3D dome relief print. Copyright the artist; reproduced with permission
Jeremy Gardiner, St Aldhelm’s Head, 24 x 17 cm, 2012, 3D dome relief print. Copyright the artist; reproduced with permission

Jeremy Gardiner, the featured artist for the BCS this month, has spent decades exploring the ancient history of the Devon/Doreset coastline through his practice which employs a hybrid technique combining painting, drawing, printmaking, and use of digital technologies to which we can now add 3D printing. This relief model was made using solid freeform fabrication techniques (3D printing) from a series of cross sections of the landscape, based on LiDAR data and then hand painted. Read the full article here: http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/44574