Timeless Art by Terry Gardiner

Welcome to my miniature and OSWOA collection

Original Small Works of Art

Media: Arches 140 Lb, Cold Pressed Cotton Rag

These are original 2.5" x 3.5" ACEO watercolors

  "Miami Beach Summer"  

  "Miami Skyline"  

  "New Orleans French Quarter Along the Mississippi"  

  "Key West Lighthouse"  

  "Turtle and Frog on Sanibel Island"  

  "Turtle and Frog on Sanibel Island"  

  "Pelican and Fish of Sanibel Island, Florida"  

These are original 4" x 6" watercolors

  "Margaritaville , Key West"  

4 X 6 Watercolor Painted 4/2007 

Jimmy Buffets - Margaritaville, Key West

  "Lazy Flamingo , Sanibel Island, Florida"  

4 X 6 Watercolor Painted 4/2007 

The wonderful Lazy Flamingo

Single Edition Special Originals

These labor intensive originals are 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" and there will be no reproductions

Due to the intense detailing and effects of watercolor there will be a limited total number of originals I will create. The first series being of New Orleans.

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or Call 888-740-3917

New Orleans Miniatures 

I do not have a macro lens for the camera, so the images are not as crisp as the actual paintings. Media: Arches 140 Lb, Cold Pressed Cotton Rag

  "Sister Victorians , New Orleans"  

3.5 X 2.5 Watercolor Painted 9/2006 

Victorians on St Charles

  "Margaritaville , New Orleans"  

3.5 X 2.5 Watercolor Painted 9/2006 

Margaritaville, NOLA

  "Pirates Alley , New Orleans"  

3.5 X 2.5 Watercolor Painted 9/2006 

Pirates Alley, New Orleans

  "Acme Oyster House , New Orleans"  

3.5 X 2.5 Watercolor Painted 9/2006 

Acme Oyster House, New Orleans

  "Old Bourbon , New Orleans"  

3.5 X 2.5 Watercolor Painted 9/2006 

Old Bourbon Street, New Orleans

  "1005 Bourbon After Katrina , New Orleans"  

3.5 X 2.5 Watercolor Painted 9/2006 

1005 Bourbon St, New Orleans

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Terry Gardiner's west coast studio has this view

Gardiner Artist Statement

"My love of the gulf coast comes alive in my paintings"      

 My first art instructor told me to go out and use my eyes to really see the earth. After practice my artistic perspective and observation techniques developed,  enabling me to paint places and objects more like I truly see and more importantly, feel them. Light patterns, texture of objects, sea depth, reflection, character and color definition were things I studied and practiced. 

At my first  gallery show in Venice,  Andy Warhol visited and told my gallery representative that the work was the best new art he'd ever seen.  That propelled me into the art world! In the Ft Myers area of southwest Florida there is a certain romance to the landscape and gulf beaches; like nowhere else it draws me in. The flow of the sand dunes and placement of palm trees and waterways has been the same for centuries.  It makes a lot of sense to me, as it must have to the original settlers and travelers. I will lay on the beach under an umbrella tree and try to create on canvas the actual feelings and senses of the coast I'm getting in those moments. When viewing my work I want you to be taken to the beaches and cities of Lee and Collier counties. If I can create that feeling in my viewers, then my work is complete and successful.

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