Clive Gardiner

Alfred Clive Gardiner (3 April 189115 May 1960) was a British teacher, illustrator, printmaker, painter and designer. An important artist in his own right, Graham Sutherland said of him: "Everything worthwhile I learnt, I learnt from him." the son of Ada née Claydon and the journalist, editor and author Alfred George Gardiner (1865–1946), the editor of The Daily News. Gardiner attended University College School. Aged 16 he went to Paris which inspired his interest in the works of Paul Cézanne Gardiner taught at the Sir John Cass Technical Institute and was a founder member and later a college principal of the Blackheath Art Society in 1947, with Graham Sutherland as the first President, along with college principals Leonard Daniels, Hebert Matthews and John Mansbridge.

In 1924 he gained recognition for the murals he painted for the British Empire Exhibition.

In the years of World War II Gardiner collaborated on the décor and design of the British Restaurants for the Ministry of Food. In his later years he became interested in watercolour painting and small oil landscapes. The Arts Council of Great Britain held a posthumous exhibition of his work in 1963. His pupils including the painter Carel Weight and the designer and typographer Charles Hasler.

Personal life In 1920 he married Lilian Adelaide Lancaster (1888–1973), an artist and a pupil of Walter Sickert. With her he had two sons, the academic philosopher Patrick Gardiner and the writer and architect Stephen Gardiner.

Clive Gardiner died at St. Stephen's Hospital in Chelsea in 1960. He left an estate valued at £20789 12s. 8d.