Scott Gardiner's practice has consistently been engaged with employing strategies that exploit the traditional dialogue between realism, landscape and abstraction. Characteristically involving the examination of force, light and an intensely personal relationship with the ocean while attempting to distill the ephemeral qualities of light and motion on water rendered in pigment.
This new body of work has seen Gardiner’s focus shift from the oceans depths to the boundary between land and sea, a ragged line like that on a map, distinguishing one world from another. As a surfer this notion of ‘crossing the threshold’ is a reality encountered on a regular basis, leaving the safety of the land for the cold and unpredictable embrace of the sea is often a heady mix of fear and exhilaration, satiating a desire for adventure while longing for safety.
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