John V Gardner

Born in Edinburgh in 1940, John was educated at the city’s Royal High School, where an interest in art and painting was planted by the late Nigel McIsaac, painter and the school’s principal teacher of art. After a career in surveying, then in Local and Central Government and latterly the church (where he still works part time), he has now returned to painting. He paints landscapes and still life in acrylic and water colour.

In 2004 he began painting seriously. His work is now shown by the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW). He has had four solo exhibitions - two in Colours Gallery, Dundas St. Edinburgh, one in the Peter Potter Gallery, Haddington and one in Alpha Art, Stockbridge Edinburgh, and has shared an exibition with fellow artists Deborah Cameron and Mike McNiven in the Dundas Street Gallery. His paintings are shown in mixed exhibitions in Edinburgh and Aberfeldy, and in galleries throughout Scotland. He has paintings in private collections in the UK, Canada, Ireland, Norway, Switzerland and Australia.

He paints full time in his studios in Edinburgh and Weem, in the heart of rural Perthshire, Scotland from where much of his inspiration for landscapes comes.