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training
Stephen Taylor studied Fine Art at Leeds University with T.J. Clark and
was taught observational painting by Paul Gopal Choudhury, with
subsidiaries in Philosophy and Theology. He then studied perception
and technique in John Constable as a post graduate at Essex
University and visiting student at Yale.
early work
After two years as Artist in residence at Felsted School,
through the 80's Stephen turned from theory to practice. He taught
art history part time and became Head of Painting at The Open
College of The Arts. At the same time he developed his painting
through a wide range commissions and subjects.
change
Over the 90's he rethought his career and focussed on landscape.
Between 1999 and 2007 he worked exclusively in a single field in
North Essex, producing two shows, at King's College, Cambridge 2002
and Vertigo, Shoreditch, London, 2006.
An altarpiece, The Hospitality of Abraham,
for The Church of The Most Holy Trinity, Reading, 2004, is an
exception to this landscape work, though it sets redemptive figures
within the created world.
now
Painting water in
a small valley in Wales. Also developing a method of mapping colour
textures from digital HDR images to help parse complex natural
scenes.
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Some personal background and the painting of his grandfather,
also a landscape painter, can be found in
"Oak: one tree, three years, fifty paintings," Princeton
Architectural Press, 2011
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