John 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, watercolourist and the school’s principal teacher of art. After a career in surveying, then in Local and Central Government service, and latterly the church, he now paints full time in his studios in Edinburgh and Weem, near Aberfeldy in Perthshire – a source of inspiration for many of his landscapes.
 
John began exhibiting seriously in 2004, and since then 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. He also shared an exhibition with two other artists in the Dundas St. Gallery.
His work is shown by the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW). As well as exhibiting in galleries in Aberfeldy and Edinburgh he regularly shows in mixed exhibitions throughout Scotland. He also has paintings in private collections in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Norway, and Switzerland.