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All artworks copyright © Vanessa Gardiner 2016Foreword copyright © Anna Powell 2016

Photography of artworks: George Meyrick. Landscape photographs: Vanessa GardinerGraphics: Ellis Sare. Printed by Epic Print, Dorchester

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Path Line 33 2015 acrylic on board 52 x 61 cm

Cover: Trevalga 7 2016 acrylic on board 107 x 122 cm, Inside cover photograph: Pentargon Title page: Forrabury 3 2015 acrylic on board 10 x 46 cm

F O R E W O R DFor a brief stretch of the dramatic north Cornish coastline, the cliffs turn to slate and rise vertical from the sea, black and architecturally structured, cut by ravines. In the longest and deepest of these lies Boscastle, a harbour as Romantic and enchanted as any you will find. If you clamber up, the steep paths lead either round a chasm to a jutting promontory or straight to the top to look down the coast, headland after headland, into a turquoise sea. Here in the sharp wind Vanessa Gardiner draws her inspiration and takes it down in eloquent pencil sketches.

Back home in west Dorset, her mind returns to those plunging cliffs with a fascination and longing that make her paint. Conveying the beauty of the place, her clean lines are true to its geography and her colours are accurate. Applying the green of wind-battered grass or the special blues of that sea, she rubs them back and abrades them, creating textures and contrast in the distinctive style she has developed over time.

Vanessa first came to Boscastle as a child from Oxford where her father was a tutor of philosophy. She has returned almost every year since, at first with her parents and later without them. But now they are gone, the place is full of memories for her and her paintings have developed a new depth and poignancy.

The Gardiner family discovered this place having read the wonderful poems Thomas Hardy wrote for his first wife Emma after her death. Racked with guilt and sorrow, the Dorset writer looked back and remembered falling in love with the bright-haired girl who rode her horse across those rolling cliff tops.

All of this Vanessa Gardiner has fed into these paintings. Hers is a disciplined art, rigorously honest, scoured clean of sentimentality, pared meticulously back to the bones and sinew of landscape and memory to create paintings that are windows on the soul, opening all of us out to the coastlines, the wild beautiful places and the people we love and have loved.

Anna PowellMarch 2016

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4 Boscastle Harbour 2015 pencil on paper 14 x 28 cm

Harbour Coast 33 2015 acrylic on plywood 90 x 122 cm 5

6 White Coast 8 2015 acrylic on board 30 x 30 cm

Cliff Wall 35 2015 acrylic on board 91 x 162 cm 7

8 Headlands 8 2015 acrylic on board 24 x 46 cmHeadlands 2015 pencil on paper 13 x 29 cm

Trevalga 1 2015 acrylic on plywood 42 x 44 cm 9

10 Islands 2 2015 acrylic on board 36 x 61 cm Vertical Coast 11 2015 acrylic on board 123 x 54 cm

12 Field Edge 27 2015 acrylic on plywood 26 x 55 cmTrevalga 4 2015 acrylic on plywood 24 x 30 cm

Harbour Coast 29 2015 acrylic on board 61 x 85 cm 13

14 Headlands 10 2016 acrylic on board 42 x 128 cm

16 Harbour Entrance 2 2015 acrylic on board 107 x 122 cm

Harbour Coast 28 2016 acrylic on board 107 x 123 cm 17

18 Harbour Coast 32 2015 acrylic on plywood 27 x 61 cm

Trevalga 3 2015 acrylic on plywood 47 x 75 cm 19

20 Islands 1 2015 acrylic on plywood 30 x 30 cm

Path Line 39 2015 acrylic on board 107 x 122 cm 21

22 Fields and Coast 2015 pencil on paper 14 x 28 cm

Field Edge 26 2015 acrylic on board 62 x 153 cm 23

24 Harbour Entrance 3 2016 acrylic on board 61 x 61 cm Vertical Coast 9 2015 acrylic on board 102 x 44 cm

Vanessa Gardiner 1960 Born Oxford1978-79 Foundation Course, Oxford Polytechnic1979-82 Central School of Art and Design, LondonLives and works in West Dorset.

Solo Exhibitions:2016 Sladers Yard, West Bay, Dorset – Coastlines2015 Thackeray Gallery, London – Chasmal Beauty2014 Quercus Gallery, Bath – Edge Lines2013 Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire – Coastal Architecture2012 Sladers Yard, West Bay, Dorset – Classical Elements 2011 Hart Gallery, London – Aegean Coasts2010 British School at Athens, Greece2009 Hart Gallery, London – Connecting Lines 2008 Sladers Yard, West Bay, Dorset – Coastal Elements 2007 Hart Gallery, London – Linear Coasts

2006 Atrium Gallery, Bournemouth University Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire2005 Hart Gallery, London – Landscape & Architecture2001, 2003 Hart Gallery, London1993 Gordon Hepworth Gallery, Exeter1991, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2000 Duncan Campbell Fine Art, London

Selected Group Exhibitions:2016 Art for Cure, Glemham Hall, Suffolk2015 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Art on a Postcard, London Quercus Gallery, Bath2014 Thackeray Gallery - Land & Sea/Summer Exhibition Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Sladers Yard, Dorset2013 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Rabley Drawing School, Marlborough Quercus Gallery, Bath Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition, London Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire

Boscastle Harbour

2011 Kettles Yard, Cambridge – Artists for Kettle’s Yard2010 20/21 British Art Fair, London (Hart Gallery) The Carlow Art Collection - 2010, Carlow, Ireland Sladers Yard, West Bay, Dorset Bevere Gallery, Worcester2009 179” RHA Exhibition (invited artist), Gallagher Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin2008/09 Bournemouth University Art Loan Collection2008 Alpha House, Sherborne London Art Fair, Islington, London (Hart Gallery)2007 Sladers Yard, West Bay, Dorset Images from North Mayo, The Courthouse Gallery, Co. Mayo, Ireland Sherborne House, Sherborne London Art Fair, Islington, London (Hart Gallery)2006 Bournemouth University Art Loan Collection Art London, Chelsea, London (Hart Gallery) London Art Fair, Islington, London (Hart Gallery) 2005 Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire Bournemouth University Art Loan Collection2004 Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne Russell-Cotes Art Gallery, Bournemouth Art for Life, Christie’s, London2003 New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London Art London, Chelsea, London2002 Eigse Carlow Visual Arts, Carlow, Ireland - Invited Artist 20/21 British Art Fair, London (Hart Gallery)

Awards/Residencies:2009 British School at Athens - Prince of Wales Bursary for the Arts2007/09/16 Residency Fellowship, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Co Mayo, Ireland2003/1999 Arts Council South West – Fine Art Award

Collections:2011 British Academy, London2010 British School at Athens, Greece2008 Magdalen College, Oxford2008 Fidelity International London/Dublin

2008 Huddersfield City Art Gallery2008 New Hall, Cambridge2007 The Ballinglen Archive, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Co. Mayo, Ireland2002 Carlow Art Collection, Carlow, Ireland 2000 Bournemouth University1998 The Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter - Arts in Hospital

Bibliography:2014 ‘In the Frame: Seascapes’ by Emily Tobin, House & Garden 2013 ‘Coastal Architecture’ (catalogue essay by Vivienne Light) Campden Gallery2012 Jacket Illustration Luck,Value, & Commitment - Themes from the Ethics of Bernard Williams, Oxford University Press 2011 Artists for Kettle’s Yard – catalogue 2009 Connecting Lines (catalogue essay by Julian Bell) Hart Gallery2008 ‘Where to Buy’ by Jane Rye The Week ‘Artist Profile’ by Fiona Robinson, Evolver 2005 ‘Vanessa Gardiner : Towards the Boundaries of Landscape’ by Stephen Swann Dorset Magazine ‘Landscape and Architecture’ (catalogue essay by Judith Bumpus) Hart Gallery 2002 Judith Bumpus, Eigse Carlow – Catalogue 2001 Reinventing the Landscape: contemporary painters and Dorset by Vivienne Light Canterton Books2000 Evening Standard, London (3/10/2000) Vivienne Light, exhibition card essay Duncan Campbell Fine Art1999 ‘A Broad Canvas’ by John Windsor The Independent Magazine 1998 ‘A Singular Vision’ The Indian Times, London review – Duncan Campbell Fine Art ‘Vanessa Gardiner : Recent Paintings’ by Judith Bumpus, essay exhibition card Duncan Campbell Fine Art1996 Modern Painters Magazine, review by Elizabeth James – Duncan Campbell Fine Art1991 ‘West Dorset Landslips exhibition card by Jane Norrie, Duncan Campbell Fine Art ‘Critic’s Choice’ by Tim Hilton, Guardian – Duncan Campbell Fine Art

List of Works

Path Line 33 2015 acrylic on board 52 x 61 cm p2

Path Line 36 2015 acrylic on board 19 x 23 cm

Path Line 37 2015 acrylic on plywood 30 x 36 cm

Path Line 39 2015 acrylic on board 107 x 122 cm p21

Field Edge 26 2015 acrylic on board 62 x 153 cm p23

Field Edge 27 2015 acrylic on plywood 26 x 55 cm p12

Headlands 8 2015 acrylic on board 24 x 46 cm p8

Headlands 10 2016 acrylic on board 42 x 128 cm p14

Headlands 18 2016 acrylic on plywood 8 x 38 cm

Beeny Cliff 9 2015 acrylic on plywood 26 x 66 cm IBC

Beeny Cliff 11 2015 acrylic on plywood 17 x 26 cm

Cliff Wall 35 2015 acrylic on board 91 x 162 cm p7

Forrabury 3 2015 acrylic on board 10 x 46 cm p1

Harbour Coast 11 2014 acrylic on plywood 14 x 27 cm

Harbour Coast 28 2016 acrylic on board 107 x 123 cm p17

Harbour Coast 29 2015 acrylic on board 61 x 85 cm p13

Harbour Coast 30 2015 acrylic on board 43 x 61 cm


Harbour Coast 32 2015 acrylic on plywood 27 x 61 cm p18

Harbour Coast 33 2015 acrylic on plywood 90 x 122 cm p5



White Coast 8 2015 acrylic on board 30 x 30 cm p6

Vertical Coast 9 2015 acrylic on board 102 x 44 cm p25

Vertical Coast 10 2015 acrylic on plywood 60 x 38 cm

Vertical Coast 11 2015 acrylic on board 123 x 54 cm p11

Harbour Entrance 1 2015 acrylic on plywood 30 x 30 cm

Harbour Entrance 2 2015 acrylic on board 107 x 122 cm p16

Harbour Entrance 3 2016 acrylic on board 61 x 61 cm p24

Harbour Entrance 4 2016 acrylic on plywood 30 x 30 cm

Trevalga 1 2015 acrylic on plywood 42 x 44 cm p9



Trevalga 5 2015 acrylic on plywood 35 x 52 cm


Trevalga 7 2016 acrylic on board 107 x 122 cm FC


Islands 1 2015 acrylic on plywood 30 x 30 cm p20

Islands 2 2015 acrylic on board 36 x 61 cm p10

Islands 4 2015 acrylic on board 61 x 85 cm BC

Drawings

Mast Pole 2013 pencil on paper 10 x 20 cm

Islands 1 2014 pencil on paper 10 x 10 cm



Boscastle Harbour 2015 pencil on paper 14 x 28 cm p4

Fields and Coast 2015 pencil on paper 14 x 28 cm p22

Headlands 2015 pencil on paper 13 x 29 cm p8

Beeny CliffMarch 1870 - March 1913

IO the opal and the sapphire of that wandering western sea, And the woman riding high above with bright hair flapping free –The woman whom I loved so, and who loyally loved me.

IIIA little cloud then cloaked us, and there flew an irised rain, And the Atlantic dyed its levels with a dull misfeatured stain, And then the sun burst out again, and purples prinked the main.

I IThe pale mews plained below us, and the waves seemed far awayIn a nether sky, engrossed in saying their ceaseless babbling say, As we laughed light-heartedly aloft on that clear-sunned March day.

IV– Still in all its chasmal beauty bulks old Beeny to the sky, And shall she and I not go there once again now March is nigh, And the sweet things said in that March say anew there by and by?

VWhat if still in chasmal beauty looms that wild weird western shore, The woman now is – elsewhere – whom the ambling pony bore,

And nor knows nor cares for Beeny, and will laugh there nevermore.

Thomas Hardy

Above: Beeny Cliff 9 2015 acrylic on plywood 26 x 66 cm Back cover: Islands 4 2015 acrylic on board 61 x 85 cm

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