Canadian artist Tim Gardner is well-known internationally for his figurative works based on personal snapshots of family events, vacations with friends and day to day activities. Mostly realized as intimate and precise watercolor paintings and oil pastel drawings, his early work used photographs of his older brother and friends as source material, capturing the sometimes excessive leisure activities of these post adolescent men engaged in sporting activities or partying. For his solo exhibition at the CAG, his first in Canada, Gardner places new emphasis on the landscape and watercolour. In this new work, the landscape becomes a place to formally engage with the properties of water colour as a medium that offers a unique immediacy.

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