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Jeremy Gardiner

Summer Storm and Sunlight, Old Harry
Acrylic & mixed media on poplar panel
22.83 x 48.03 ins (57.9 x 121.9 cms)

signed & dated 2009

title inscribed verso

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Notes from the artist:

When Paul Nash wrote the Shell Guide to Dorset, in 1935, he was living at No 2 the Parade, in Swanage, the first floor flat of a Victorian Terrace on the sea front. Number 2 is now a holiday let. In 1992, I started to rent it and paint from the balcony. I worked indoors, looking from relative darkness at the brilliant light on Swanage Bay, from an enclosed place to a vast expanse of sea and sky. From this balcony and Swanage Pier, I have seen the clouds darken the sky and sunlight spill through onto the chalk face of Old Harry across the bay. The horizontal plane of the bay and the oblique shafts of light create a unique spectacle, but the weather changes and the scene is gone as quickly as it has arrived

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