ADDY GARDNER

"My paintings are born from an emotional response to places I visit and views that I witness in my day-to-day life. Outwardly they relate to different light and colour in the landscape. I then relate these to inward feelings and memories and things which are currently going on in my life. Sometimes also the history of a place and a feeling about a place will have an effect on the painting. All of them are about beauty in the landscape and moments where this beauty affects us.”

Essentially Addy Gardner’s paintings are autobiographical, reflecting her thoughts and preoccupations which morph into compositions capturing the drama of darker moments and lighter dawns of realisation, a sense of self and 'peak experience'. A World Of Our Own is such a painting with all the joy and inflections of mood that colour the landscape of the Welsh Mountains and the promise of the valley beyond.

Abstract expressionism in Addy's work generally treads a fine line with figuration, as land meets sky, affording us an insight into the artist's journey whilst inviting us to explore our own path.

This particular painting Along By The Willows, Deep In Thought is the artist’s response to walking by the River Windrush. Winter is not yet over, but there is a promise of Spring and new beginnings in the cool blues and whites of the sky fresh against the earthier tones of the land, and the dance of the willow branches whipping in the wind.

Addy Gardner trained in Psychology before studying Fine Art, and it is the combination of the two that distinguishes her abstracted landscapes from so many others.