Artwork Collection
As part of the refresh of our London office, we have curated a thoughtful collection of artwork which embodies both the values of the firm and represents our field of expertise - the built environment.
The collection mostly consists of print artworks revolving around impressive landscapes. Photography is one of the main mediums of this collection. Architectural detail as well as impressive cityscapes are the focus.
The selection of artworks range from bold and colourful abstract works to monochromatic urban pieces. The artworks are all related by the themes of cityscape, the natural environment and sustainability, but they aesthetically differ in order to bring diversity to our workspace.
Corinne Natel
Lani
Corinne Natel is a contemporary abstract artist, based in North West London, specialising in acrylic and mixed media paintings. She is passionate about painting and is regularly creating new artworks. She is inspired by landscapes, nature, cities, travel, fashion and media. Her work investigates colour, form, space and texture.
Acrylic, ink, resin and mixed media on canvas.
1020 x 1020 mm
Corinne Natel
Ume
Acrylic, ink, resin and mixed media on canvas.
1020 x 1020 mm
Corinne Natel
Keiko #1
Acrylic, ink, resin and mixed media on canvas.
1020 x 1020 mm
Corinne Natel
Kaui
Acrylic, ink, resin and mixed media on canvas.
1020 x 1020 mm
Matthew Curtis-Knight
No 246
Matthew Curtis-Knight is a multi-media artist living and working in London. He was born in 1981 and graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins in 2004 specialising in video and interactive installation. More recently, Matthew has focussed his practice towards photography, scan-ography and digital photo manipulation, creating large scale C-Type digital prints for private and corporate collections.
Framed Print
1050 x 800 mm
Matthew Curtis-Knight
No 240
Framed Print
1050 x 800 mm
Zdenek Sasek
Abstract City Skyline
Zdenek Sasek is a cartoon illustrator and digital artist. His artwork shows the endless opportunities technology offers: an infinite virtual cityscape. It recalls Valeria Nascimento’s ‘Cube Installation’ already belonging to Gardiner & Theobald’s art collection. The three-dimensional virtual cubes create an imaginary landscape, a horizon of possibilities.
Framed Print
1100 x 1400 mm
Zdenek Sasek
Abstract City Skyline
Framed Print
1100 x 1400 mm
Michal Kotek
Abstract simple paper city background with skyscrapers
Michal Kotek is a Czech artist based in Prague. He studied virtual graphic design at Applied Cybernetics. He now works as a 3D freelance artist and is constantly inspired by photography.
Framed Print
1100 x 1400 mm
Zdenek Sasek
Abstract 3D Planet
Framed Print
1100 x 1400 mm
Zdenek Sasek
Abstract City Skyline 3D Simple Blocks Buildings
Framed Print
1100 x 1400 mm
Josef Sedmak
Untitled
This modern wooden arch construction is located in the capital of Vienna near the Danube.
Framed Print
800 x 1050 mm
Meagan Carsience
City Lights Transformed
Meagan Carsience is an abstract photographer who specialises in transforming light into fascinating compositions through experimental techniques. She is interested in transforming light with her camera lens but never through computer manipulation. Here for example, the city lights are transformed by their reflections on water.
Framed Print
800 x 1050 mm
Sean Pavone
Hong Kong China
Sean Pavone studied Cognitive Sciences before becoming a skyline and landscape photographer 10 years ago.
Framed Print
800 x 1050 mm
Ramunas Bruzas
Seattle Skyscraper
Ramunas Bruzas graduated from New York Institute of Photography in 2005 and has since then used the medium to explore landscapes, cities and wildlife under different angles. His profession was an opportunity for him to visit many different countries and exotic locations.
Framed Print
800 x 1050 mm
Roy Langstaff
Museum Brandhorst in Munich
Roy Langstaff is inspired by geometric shapes and natural abstractions. The Museum Brandhorst in Munich is dedicated to contemporary art and its façade is made of 36,000 ceramic rods.
Framed Print 800 x 1050 mm
Chris Hellier
Regional Government Offices in Aubagne, France
Chris Hellier has been a photographer and journalist since 1985. His photographic interest lies in travel and documentary photography as well as environmental and wildlife images.
Framed Print
1050 x 800
David Lichtneker
Colourful Building Façade
David Lichtneker is an award-winning writer and photographer with over 25 years of experience. He is inspired by mountains and coastlines and focuses mainly on creative imagery, fine art and landscapes.
Framed Print
1050 x 800 mm
Brendan McCormick
Tops_20
In using plastic bottle caps as a medium, Brendan McCormick denounces the impact of our lifestyle on the environment and the amount of waste one person can create. In recycling the caps, the artist gives the object a second life as well as a new utility.
Framed plastic bottle tops
500 x 500 mm
Brendan McCormick
Tops_17
Framed plastic bottle tops
500 x 500 mm
Stephen Spraggon
An Abstract View of a Multicoloured Tower of Pipes at La Defense
Stephen Spraggon is a landscape photographer based in Somerset, UK. Although Stephen’s photographs mainly focus on landscapes of nature, he is interested in urban architecture. He is fascinated by the dialogue between the geometry of architecture and its surrounded environment.
Framed Print
800 x 1050 mm
Galina Tcarkova
Coloured Glass Façade
Galina Tcarkova is a Russian photographer. In this photograph, the coloured glass paired with the metal elements of the architectural structure offer a dynamic and colourful composition playing with optical illusion.
Framed Print
800 x 1050 mm
Sophie Pasquet
Paris, Detail of La Defense
Sophie Pasquet is a professional photographer living in Paris. Her work combines both her passion for photography and her willingness to give the best touristic experience to the city’s visitors. She is inspired by the architecture, light and colours of the city.
Framed Print
800 x 1050 mm
Mark Power
Untitled
As a child Mark Power discovered his father’s home-made enlarger in the family attic, a contraption consisting of an upturned flowerpot, a domestic light bulb and a simple camera lens. His interest in photography probably began at this moment, although he later chose illustration - specialising in life drawing and painting instead. He (accidentally) ‘became a photographer’ in 1983 and worked in the editorial and charity markets for nearly 10 years, before he began teaching in 1992. This coincided with a shift towards long-term, self-initiated projects which now sit comfortably alongside a number of large-scale commissions in the industrial sector.
To date, Power has published four monographs: The Shipping Forecast, a poetic response to the esoteric language of daily maritime weather reports in 1996; Superstructure, a documentation of the construction of London’s Millennium Dome in 2000; The Treasury Project, about the restoration of a nineteenth-century historical monument, in 2002: and 26 Different Endings (2007) which looks at those landscapes unlucky enough to fall just off the edge of the London A-Z (a map which could be said to define the boundaries of the British capital). Meanwhile, The Sound of Two Songs - Poland 2004-2008 and A-380 are about the development of the worlds’ largest passenger airplane and were published in 2008.
Valéria Nascimento
Cube Installation 2010
"Cube Installation" by Valéria Nascimento stretches to 2 meters long and consists of 130 handmade slab-built stoneware cubes finished in oatmeal glaze, which has a matt finish. Each cube represents a building. Using the ceramic cubes to loosely identify as architectural buildings, she has taken into account the various sites within Bedford Square where Gardiner & Theobald first started.
By using a colour glaze to identify loosely the Gardiner & Theobald sites, thus creating the past and present viewpoint of the ever-growing organisation. Each individual piece is cut from clay slabs and joined together to form each element of the overall installation. The pieces are glazed and high-fired in an electric kiln to a temperature of 1260 degrees Celsius. The whole process is handmade. Nascimento is mainly inspired by the natural world, with a strong interest in the elements of repetition and sequence the forms take using this concept.
Her main interest lies in larger-scale wall pieces and installations. As the scale increases the opportunity for communicating her ideas increase together. 'My inspiration is drawn mostly from the natural world and porcelain has the smoothness and the malleability that I need to create new shapes, manipulating it to appear in some cases defiantly weightless. My work is about repetitive sculptural group. I am interested in large-scale wall installation projects.'
Chris Wood
Ordered Chance
The commission by Chris Wood, 'Ordered Chance' is a random arrangement of dichroic fins, containing within the geometry of circle. The fins are colourless material with an applied dichroic filter. The filter interferes with the passage of light revealing optical colours contained within white light. The hue and intensity of the colours change depending upon the angle and intensity of the light. The random arrangement of the fins allows light to interact with the material at different angles, creating complex patterns of colour light. The work is mounted onto white aluminium.
Wood uses a variety of optical materials in order to exploit the aesthetic potential of light. Minimal structures support simple arrangements of optical materials, which interact with light, to create complex kinetic patterns of light and shade. Her work aims to reveal the wonder and magic of the phenomenon of light.
Lucien Simon
Totem
Lucien Simon's glass totem has a structural quality to its layered and etched glass which is clearly discernible when it is illuminated. Born in London, England, Lucien Simon is a versatile artist creating original sculptural works in glass, metal and stone as well as colourful abstract paintings on wood and canvas.
He feels he is best expressed in his creations, where his thoughts, emotions, inspiration and ideas are all cogently evident.