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Addy Gardner

WITNEY
Themes of the work are the climate and biodiversity crisis. A blended socially engaged approach usuing a misture of mediums and platforms.
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My paintings have been shown in solo and group shows in galleries and art fairs across the uk. It has been bought and collected nationally and internationally.  Solo shows have been reviewed in three articles in the Oxford Times as well as in an Oxfordshire magazine. A series of work featured on an interior design TV program and a piece was once raffled to raise funds for an environmental project. 

I have drawn on psychological theories of self actualisation in relation to ‘peak experience’, an area of psychology that I am fascinated with. The phenomenon is found to be closely linked with the experience one might have in a beautiful landscape. Associated are feelings of being ‘at one with the world’, being ‘in the moment’ creatively, and feeling a connection with people of past generations and the human race as a whole. I have used this process as a way to create a narrative of my life and it has become part of my artistic repertoire.  It has influenced me to reflect on events in my life and to heal and I hope, has offered the same to others.

My hope now is to develop my artist practice in terms of both its creative focus, methods of working  and mediums. This will be a significantly different way of working although the focus will still be the environment. In the past two years I have been extensively researching climate and biodiversity issues and have become involved in networks related to these areas. It is in this direction that I would like to be able to develop my work. My new body of work draws on these themes.

 

Solo Exhibitions

Skyfall, Art Jericho, Jenny Blyth Fine Art, (December 2015)

Light in the Landscape, Art Jericho, Jenny Blyth Fine Art, (May 2014)

SOTA Gallery, Oxfordshire (May 2013)

'Earth & Sky' Jenny Blyth Fine Art, Cork Street, London (September 2011)

'Paintings of naturalistic landscapes', Artmill, Plymouth (March 2011)

'Earth & Sky', Art Jericho Gallery, Oxford (December 2010)

Ark-T Centre Gallery, Oxford (February 2010)

Liscious Interiors, Oxford. (December 2006)

 

Group Exhibitions/Art Fairs

Group Show, Carey Blyth Gallery, 2020, 2021, 2022

'Touching the Earth' with Jenny Blyth Fine Art, North Wall Gallery, 2019

Group show, Hatch Gallery, Christchurch, Dorset (April 2018)

Fresh Art Fair, Kingfisher Art, Cheltenham (April 2018)

Edinburgh Art Fair, Kingfisher Art, Edinburgh (November 2017)

Group Show, Kyffin Gallery, Oxfordshire (February 2017)

Group show, Artmill Gallery 2, (July 2015)

‘The Space Beyond Us’, Artmill, Plymouth (April 2014)

Affordable Art Fair, Jenny Blyth Fine Art, London (October 2013)

London Art Fair, Jenny Blyth Fine Art, London (January 2013)

'Little Wonder” St Annes Galleries, East Sussex (December 2012)

'Kaleidoscope', with Nicholas Hedges, The North Wall Gallery, Oxford (October 2012)

Summer Show, St Annes Galleries, East Sussex (March 2012)

Artmill, Plymouth (January 2012)

'Halcyon', Art Jericho, Oxford (December 2011)

Summer Show, Limekiln Gallery, Cornwall (June 2011)

'Seeing Differently', West Ox Arts Gallery, Oxfordshire (February 2011)

'Beyond the Surface', Galanthus Gallery, Hereford. (January, 2010)

'Observing Oxford', Art Jericho Gallery, Oxford. (August 2009)

Oxford Artweeks, (May 2009/2010/2011)

Inspires Gallery, Oxford. (October 2006)

Duncan Campbell Gallery, Kensington, London. (March 2006)

 

Training

Oxford Brookes University Foundation in Art & Design

John Moores University, BSc Honours, Applied Psychology-

Liverpool Upper 2nd Class Honours

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