Think of the amount of time you spend in your home. Walking up to your front door, turning the key, and breathing a sigh of relief! Commemorate this with an urban landscape of your home or block by Jesse Gardner. Your finished piece will be a 20 x 16 inch unframed oil on wood painting that you will cherish forever.

About the artist:

Jesse J. Gardner was born inMadison,Wisconsinin 1956. The son of teachers and writers, he grew up on farms inVermont’sNortheastKingdomand Cape Breton Island inCanada. For the past 16 years, he has been represented by F.A.N. Gallery in Philadelphia.

In his landscapes, he seeks out the underappreciated and overlooked as subjects. The underlying narrative in his paintings is one of restoration and transformation—a redemption of the forgotten. Light and the absence of light are the tools that he uses to reveal transformation and restore dignity to his subjects.

Working primarily on prepared wood panels, he avoids artistic flourishes and facile-looking brushwork, preferring to layer and scrape and move the oil colors around until they narrate a story. Surface and quality and how a work will stand the test of time are important to the artist.

Urban landscapes are produced in the studio from multiple sketches and photographs taken on site.