Tim Gardner

Tim Gardner, a young artist (b. 1973) currently living in British Columbia, had the opportunity in autumn 2005 to spend three months exploring the National Gallery collection and using the artist's studio here.

This exhibition highlights the paintings he executed as a result of that experience. Gardner works primarily in watercolour and many of his paintings have been based on photographs, mostly snapshots, of family, friends, athletes and mountain landscapes.

Unassuming in scale and subject matter, they nonetheless address major issues that have concerned artists for centuries: love, loyalty, bravery, camaraderie, and what it means to be a man.

The New Yorker magazine has described Gardner's work as 'profound', and he has attracted many enthusiastic admirers as a result of successful exhibitions in galleries in New York and London.

This exhibition is part of an expanded National Gallery commitment to contemporary art: to exhibit younger artists early in their careers, as well as the work of more established figures.

Tim Gardner: New Works