Bronia GardnerArtist

Work

Everything here starts with a photograph. Layers are then removed, softened and reassembled until only what feels essential is left. Some pieces are painted. Some are stitched by hand. Most sit somewhere between the two.

Sizes, framing, availability and prices on request

A fragmented painting of two upholstered chairs. Parts of the blue buttoned back and the worn seats remain; the rest dissolves into a flat grey-lilac ground.

Where Someone Sat

2026 · Archival pigment print on canvas · Limited edition

Some chairs are more than furniture. They become witnesses to quiet conversations, and to the traces of lives lived around them.

Fragments of peeling wallpaper in cream and pale green, with a broken blue-and-white ceramic jug and a colander, floating on a warm putty ground.

Untitled

2026

Worn wallpaper and blue-and-white ceramics. Layers of peeling paper reveal the passage of time; the broken crockery speaks of beauty and fragility.

A faded sepia photograph on canvas of five figures casting long shadows on sand. The coat of the smallest child is picked out in dense hand stitching.

The Smallest Among Them

2026 · Archival pigment print on canvas with hand stitching

It begins with an anonymous family photograph. Only the coat of the youngest child is stitched, using thread not to restore what has been lost but to draw attention to one quiet presence.

The west front of Lincoln Cathedral in pale honey stone, its towers and arcading intact at the centre while the edges break away into bare grey ground.

Beautiful Lincoln

2026 · Limited edition giclée, signed and numbered · Canvas editions available

A study of Lincoln Cathedral suspended somewhere between memory and presence.

Two chairs with round spindle backs, worn and partly erased, their outlines breaking up against a pale ground.

Untitled

2026

Two chairs remain. Not quite whole, not entirely gone. The repeated circular backs echo cycles, return and repetition.

A window and the architecture around it, parts sharply present and parts dissolving into drips and bare ground.

The Space Between Looking

2026

It began with a window and became something more uncertain. A space between observing and remembering, where looking becomes an act of reconstruction.

A stitched canvas based on a historic photograph of the swimmer Mercedes Gleitze emerging from the sea, the figure built from dense thread.

Mercedes Gleitze

2026 · Stitched canvas

One of the first women to swim the English Channel, shown emerging from the water. Thread reconstructs the image while leaving space for the viewer to complete it.

Two figures walking towards the sea beneath a wide empty sky, stitched into a painted photograph.

We Went Anyway

2026 · Stitch on painted photograph

Two figures walk towards the sea beneath an endless sky, carrying friendship, resilience and the simple courage of stepping forward together.

Blackberries, apples, roses and dried seed heads taken apart and reassembled as scattered fragments across a soft neutral ground.

A Gathering of Summer

2026 · From The Remembered Garden

Blackberries, apples, wildflowers and seed heads collected from the garden and hedgerow, then taken apart and reassembled into fragments of memory.

Parts of a bicycle, a wheel and sections of frame, detached and hovering in uncertain space on a pale ground.

Untitled

2026

Fragments of a bicycle suspended somewhere between memory and disappearance. The painting became less about the bicycle than about the impossibility of complete retrieval.

An old preserving jar, an artichoke and a folded cloth, partly erased so that sections of the objects fall away into bare ground.

Untitled

2026

An old preserving jar, an artichoke, a folded cloth. Nothing extraordinary, until attention is paid to them.

Vivid red berries suspended above a worn, incomplete surface in muted greens and greys.

Untitled

2026 · Printed large, framed in oak

The quiet tension between fragility and abundance. Memory preserves some things with startling clarity while allowing everything else to fade.

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Sizes, framing options, edition numbers and prices are all available on request. Several of these works exist as limited edition prints on archival paper or canvas, and a few originals are still held in the studio.

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