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Liz Gardner
Elizabeth Louise
Gardner, better known as Liz Gardner, has been working as a
freelance artist and graphic designer for the last 30 years.
Liz studied at Ontario Fanshawe College for three years and
earned a degree, with a major in Painting and a Minor in Graphic
Design. She is also experienced in screening/printing
techniques.
Gardner designed
45,000 fabric patterns for Queensway Fabrics, which were sold
throughout the Caribbean. She also produced a large quantity of
graphic designs for BWIA, TSTT & PowerGen (Trinidad), Fu-Tech
Designs (New York), Style (Martinique), Red Stripe (Jamaica) and
Jeanmarie (Barbados) as well as many other local boutiques and
businesses. She produced black and white illustrations for
McMillan Publishers, England, to be used in CXC workbooks.
Gardner re-designed
interiors for the Queen’s Park Oval and Coblentz Inn and for
three private residences.
Gardner has produced
5 one-woman exhibitions with 40-45 paintings each at Horizons
Art Gallery and at another leading gallery in the Port of Spain
area.
Some of Gardner’s
works of art (12ft x 15ft murals) presently hang at:
The Hilton Hotel,
Tobago
The Marriott Hotel,
Port of Spain
Queen’s Hall
The Kapok Hotel
NLCB Offices, Port
of Spain
HCL Head Office,
Port of Spain
Price Waterhouse
Coopers, Barbados
The Coblentz Inn,
Cascade
As owner and manager
of Plantation Clothing Company, she was responsible for graphic
designs on t-shirts, women’s apparel and other forms of print
media such as postcards, logos etc. During this time she worked
on several productions at Queen’s Hall. Gardner was also
involved in stage production at the Little Carib Theatre with
Beryl McBurnie and with Lennox and Cookie Raphael in Belmont.
At Star Productions
– a video production company, she produced documentaries for
UNICEF. This entailed travelling throughout the Caribbean
islands which broadened her horizons and gave her much of the
inspiration for her work. Starr productions was the only
company to have an all-female film crew that produced a
documentary “Sisters of the Sun” for the Women’s Summit in
Nairobi in 1986.Gardner enjoys teaching students and was
employed as Art Teacher at Holy Name Convent, Port of Spain for
two years. Gardner was the Artistic Director in Stage design,
make up and costume with Holy Name Convent and Queen’s Royal
College when their choirs toured London with Geraldine O’Connor
and Michael Steele. She also taught Art and English Literature
at St. Anthony’s College for 3 years.
Private collectors
of Gardner’s work include a High Court Judge, Government
Ministers and other officials and overseas collectors reside
throughout Europe, North America, South Africa, South America
and the Caribbean.
The Trinidad and
Tobago Government selected one of Gardner’s paintings as a gift
from Trinidad to President Bill Clinton at the Summit of the
Americas in Miami in 1996. |
