James Cyril Gardiner

James feels he now sees the world through his favoured media and creative techniques- as in A, B or C… Abstract Elemental Ventures, Blue Ballpen Bictures or Copic Colour Captures.
Abstract pieces utilise concentrated watercolour paint and acrylic paint pens, often using unconventional application t...

James feels he now sees the world through his favoured media and creative techniques- as in A, B or C… Abstract Elemental Ventures, Blue Ballpen Bictures or Copic Colour Captures.
Abstract pieces utilise concentrated watercolour paint and acrylic paint pens, often using unconventional application techniques in order to introduce an element of randomness and chance into the painting.
Blue Ballpen pieces explore differing rendering processes, challenging when working only with a Bic blue pen. These works are labour intensive but require the gentlest of touches, often taking over 30 hours to produce.
Copic colour captures are primarily James’ signature captures of city life which feature the outlines of people, describing that space as something individual and peculiar only to that person. And yet, that figure is sometimes lost in layers of other similar occupants. Maybe from a minute before – maybe from more than a century previously, spirits conjured from the mists of time.
James’ works are offered for sale only as original, one-off pieces. He says: “I create a piece and as soon as it is finished, I am only interested in the next piece – this one is done. If someone else can then enjoy owning it, then that’s fantastic – I like the idea of the paper I worked on, and the marks I made, then existing in another’s world…”