Addy Gardner’s work explores her thoughts, feelings and emotions in relation to ‘wildness’ in the natural world and primarily in Britain. Her work is largely documentational and autobiographical but seeks also to investigate ecology politics and translate sentiments surrounding themes such as land rights, right to roam, farming and regeneration based on her wide reading around these issues.
Gardner primarily uses a mixed media approach and focuses on abstracted representations of landscape, seeking to fix within the works an energy and joy which she gleans from the natural spaces she loves. She works mainly with oils, incorporating collage material largely taken from fairytale books and literature about the environment.
Her inspiration largely stems from her own connections with nature in her life and a sense of loss that the disappearance of those places through development provokes. Gardner draws from the relationship she has with these spaces in her daily, as well as personal life and sees both as being interconnected. In the words of Agnes Varda, If we opened people up we’d find landscapes.
Addy Gardner’s work has been shown, and is held in private collections both in the UK and internationally.
