这些油画是艺术家于2010年十月对中国的一次旅程经历后的创作。随同其他7位艺术家和一位评论家，彼得·加德纳途经平遥，西安到达成都，接着到重庆。然后，他们搭乘一艘慢船顺长江而行，在武汉停靠，最后到达上海。此次旅程他们坐火车硬卧和住旅馆，游历了近五个星期之后回到他们的北京工作室。对这几位澳大利亚艺术家来说，此行就好像是对另一个星球的旅行。他们在北皋工作室创作了近三个星期，作品集中在红门画廊举办群展（红门画廊全程关注这次旅程）。

此行的主旨就在于通过回首他们的经历并在这么短的时间里创作出优秀的作品，就像是一场赌博。然而当彼得·加德纳静静地呆在自己的工作室时，作品的景象都近乎一一浮现在他的脑海中。他专注于所看到的中国佛塔和寺庙以及一些简单想法，让他构建了一些表达他经历感触的画面框架。彼得·加德纳在三个星期内创作了十六幅大尺寸油画，他脑海中所构思创造的这些画景是为呈现某个时期的某种事物的中国存在。这些作品目前正在想象画廊展出，同时也是彼得·加德纳在中国的首次个人作品展览。

展览题目: “寺庙鸣鼓”
媒介:　油画
展览日期：2010年12月12日－2011年3月30日 
艺术家: 彼得·加德纳（澳大利亚）
地址：想象画廊，朝阳区，来广营东路，同达生态园对面，费家村东路，8号艺术工作室
电话： 64385747
Email:  laetitia.gauden@imagine-gallery.com
Website:   www.imagine-gallery.com
画廊营业时间: 周二至周日, 上午10:30-下午5:30

The paintings are a response to a journey through China undertaken in October of 2010. Along with 7 other artists and one critic, Peter Gardener travelled out to Chengdu, via Pingyao and Xian, then down to Chongqing. They then caught a slow boat down the Yangtze, stopping in Wuhan and on to Shanghai. By the time they returned to Beijing they had been travelling for 5 weeks, hard sleeping in trains and staying in hostels. For Australian artists, the trip was like a journey to another planet, and they had 3 weeks in a studio at Beigao to produce a group exhibition for Red Gate gallery who had overseen the journey.

Such was the overwhelming nature of the trip and their experiences the production of a show in such a short turn around was always going to be a gamble. Once Peter Gardiner found himself in the studio however, the work just poured out of him. The simple idea of focusing on the pagodas and temples he had witnessed and drawn allowed him to construct a framework that he could pour his experiences into. Peter Gardiner painted sixteen large works in three weeks, the birth of a body of work he will be producing for sometime to come as China sorts itself out in his head. These works are now on show at Imagine Gallery for Peter Gardiner’s first Solo exhibition in China.

Exhibition Title: Temple Drum
Medium: oil painting on canvas
Dates: from Dec.12 to March 30, 2011
Artist Name:  PETER GARDINER (Australia)
Venue: Imagine Gallery, No.8 Feijiacun Yishu Gongzuoshi, Feijiacun, Laiguangyingdonglu, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100103, China.
Tel: 64385747
Email:  laetitia.gauden@imagine-gallery.com
Website:  www.imagine-gallery.com
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sun, 10:30am-5:30pm