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Signed with initials and dated;
oil on paper, 10 × 14¼ in. (25.5 × 36.3 cm.)
Provenance: Abbott and Holder, London; Michael Whitehall

A related painting by Gardiner, entitled Towards Wiltshire, is in the collection of the Swindon Art Gallery. A similar work can be seen hanging over the fireplace in Gardiner’s painting of his wife Evelyn at their family home in Stroud (cat. 32). In 1947 Gardiner produced a series of eleven illustrations for The Cotswolds by Kenneth Green (Garland Press, Bristol), the front cover of which shows a similar composition.

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Inscribed on label on reverse: ‘This picture is the property of Mrs Evelyn Gardiner’
Oil on canvas, 28¼ × 26 in. (71.5 × 66 cm.)
Provenance: Evelyn Gardiner, Dorset; private collection, Gloucestershire;
private collection, East Yorkshire; private collection, North Yorkshire

The painting over the fireplace in this work is typical of the heightened pastel
colours of Gardiner’s landscapes (see cat. 93).

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Inscribed on label on reverse: ‘This picture is the property of Mrs Evelyn Gardiner’; dated on canvas return: ‘15th April ’34’
Oil on canvas, 28 × 30¼ in. (71 × 77 cm.)
Provenance: Evelyn Gardiner, Dorset; private collection, Gloucestershire;
private collection, East Yorkshire; private collection, North Yorkshire

These two paintings, which remained with the artist and his wife throughout
their lives, are somewhere between genre paintings and portraits. The setting
for both is the artist’s home Lower Nash End, Bisley in Gloucestershire,
where the Gardiners moved in 1934, the year of the Daybed painting.
While remaining a purely figurative painter, Gardiner delighted in applying
thick impasto, often in pure colours, and had a remarkable ability to capture,
in abstract gestures, both natural and artificial light, and the play of reflected
light and shadows.

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Signed with initials and dated 1958, inscribed with title on label on reverse
Black chalk and wash, 11¾ × 28 in. (30 × 70.5 cm.)
Provenance: private collection, Gloucestershire; private collection, East Yorkshire; private collection, North Yorkshire
Exhibited: Royal Academy, 1960 (no. 1201)

This large panoramic drawing was exhibited at the Royal Academy a year after Gardiner died, the last of twenty-six of his works exhibited over four decades. Although Gardiner mostly drew the Cotswolds where he lived, he had a natural affinity with the landscape of Scotland, especially Argyll, where he made several painting expeditions, especially after the Second World War. He exhibited Argyll subjects at the Royal Academy consecutively in 1946, 1947 and 1948.