‘Smelling Like a Swimming Pool, Looking For The Waiter’ by Alex Gardner, 2018. This artist insists that he is not a surrealist, despite a niggling impulse to apply that descriptor to his work. Everyday conversations, commutes and routines form the main inspiration for his paintings, as opposed to dreamy, otherworldly narratives. Gardner says that “all my subject matter is based on real life. I’m not trying to access the subconscious or the unconscious dream state. I don’t want to have these pieces of a puzzle…I try to strip it down to the basics to evoke mood and emotion.” #objet_d_emotion…#valerydemure#jewellery#fashionjewelry#finejewellery#contemporarydesign#jewelry#finejewelry#art#modernart#sculpture#luxury#objetdemotion#handmade#instagood#designerjewellery#fashionjewellery#fineart#jewellerycollector#jewelrycollector#preciousstone#diamonds#silver#abstractart#jewel#jewels#artisan#abstract#craftsmanship#gold