The quiet aspirations and delights of countless anonymous lives are represented by caravans, trimmed foliage, telegraph poles and wonky telly aerials.

As well as landscape, in the broadest sense, these works are about home in all its guises: as a place, a time, and as a sensory trigger. Though the places may feel very specific, and perhaps even familiar, none really are. They are archetypes, constructs of a nation’s memory.

Gardiner received a Masters in Fine Art at the Royal Academy Schools, London, in 1994, and subsequently lived for some seven years in New York City, before returning to live and work again in London. As well as regular solo shows in both cities, her work has been acquired for many corporate and private collections. The work has won The NatWest Prize for Art, the National Open Art Towry Award and the Benton Prize at the Discerning Eye Exhibition, and has been written about by – among others – Andrew Graham Dixon.