Alexandra Gardner Scottish, Contemporary, 1945

Description

Alexandra Gardner painted Carol’s Carnations during a period in which still life became central to her practice, allowing sustained attention to structure, colour relationships and surface. Carnations have a long history within European still-life painting, valued for their durability and complex petal forms, and Gardner’s choice places her work in dialogue with this tradition while remaining firmly contemporary. Gardner’s approach reflects her interest in the physical properties of paint and the formal arrangement of everyday subjects, developed through sustained studio practice rather than observational study alone.