Jeremy Gardiner British, b. 1957

In 2013 Lund Humphries published Gardiner’s monograph, The Art of Jeremy Gardiner, Unfolding Landscape. Wendy Baron, who first encountered Gardiner’s work in 1983 at the Royal College of Art postgraduate show when she acquired his work in her role as Director of the Government Art Collection, writes in the foreword that Gardiner and his work, while belonging to the strong and enduring tradition of English landscape painting, maintain a vision and sensibility that is unique; “The abstracted reliefs of Nicholson, the dance of transparent organic shapes of Tunnard, the metaphysical...