ALEXANDRA GARDNER | Still Life on Shiny Surface
Oil on Canvas
50 x 60 cms / 19¾ x 23½ inches
Signed Gardner (lower left)
Still Life on Shiny Surface is a still life painting by contemporary Scottish artist Alexandra Gardner. In this composition, Gardner employs a restrained palette of deep blues, soft greys and warm yellows to create a poised arrangement of vessels, glassware and lemons. The reflective surface introduces a quiet dynamism, echoing the surrounding objects in painterly abstraction. With its subtle tension between light and shadow, the work invites the viewer into a moment of stillness, characteristic of Gardner’s refined and atmospheric style.
Raymond Thibésart’s ethereal landscapes won great acclaim in the French Salons in the early twentieth century. Born in the elegant town of Bar-sur-Aube, surrounded by gently rolling hills and the champagne vineyards of the Grand Est region, the beauty of the French landscape and the artistic possibilities that it evoked made a deep impression on the young Thibésart.
In his early twenties Thibésart studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and later at the progressive Académie Julian under the tutorage of Jules Lefebvre and Tony Robert-Fleury, who introduced a strong element of symbolism into his work.
Thibésart worked in pastel outdoors, allowing him to make rapid sketches of changing light effects and atmospheric qualities of the landscape. Within the tranquillity of his studio, Thibésart would then transfer the colours, movements and atmosphere captured in pastel onto large scale canvases whilst ensuring the spontaneity of his subject was never lost.
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