Talking Points: Vanessa Gardiner
A collection of sources and imagery to explore the work of landscape painter Vanessa Gardiner.
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Vanessa Gardiner
“As a landscape painter I am captivated both by the beauty of the places on which my work is based and by the processes involved during the making of the pictures. In a sense, for me, they go hand-in-hand: the immediacy of drawing directly from the seemingly haphazard natural subject matter, with the careful selection and ordering of the compositions back in the studio.” – Vanessa Gardiner
Questions to Ask Children
Do you like Gardiner’s linear approach to landscape painting?
What does the texture add to the painting?
Does this make you think about landscapes differently?
How do the paintings make you feel?
What kind of atmosphere(s) does Gardiner capture in the painting(s)?
This Talking Points Is Used In...
Pathway: Mixed Media Land and city scapes
using sketchbooks to make visual notes
Show me what you see
