Tracey Gardner - 2024
Tracey Gardner lives in West London and has recently returned to her early love of oil painting. Tracey was mainly self-taught prior to her attending Heatherley’s School of Fine Art, Chelsea, where she gained her Diploma in Portraiture. Since getting back to the easel, Tracey Gardner’s work has been pre-selected for the Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition and she has also exhibited in the West End with The Tite Street Group, at the Chelsea Arts Society’s Annual Exhibition 2017 and 2018, the Society of Fulham Artists and Potters and The Friends of Holland Park Annual Art Exhibition 2023 and 2024.
Artist Statement:
The desire to capture the hidden beauty and unexpected in the familiar and everyday, continually inspires me to paint.
The space between or surrounding these objects intrigues me as much as the objects themselves, as does the transformative effect of the ever-changing light upon them.
With quick, broad brush strokes and a loose painterly style, I strive to record the moment light and shadows create an almost tangible bond between individual objects or an object and its surroundings, before the connection all too quickly passes.