Stephen Taylor studied Fine Art at Leeds University with T.J. Clark and was taught observational painting by Paul Gopal Choudhury. He then studied perception and technique in John Constable as a post graduate at Essex University and visiting student at Yale.
After two years as Artist in residence at Felsted School, over the 80's Stephen turned from art history to painting. He developed his skill by working to commission with a wide range of clients, and taught art history and theory part time becoming for a while Head of Painting at The Open College of The Arts.
Berevement in the 90's led him to rethink his work and focus on observed 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 his landscape work, though it sets redemptive figures within the created world.
Stephen is currently painting water and developing a method of digital colour-texture analysis with John Cupitt of Imperial College, a computer scientist interested in colour perception. He's also interested in nature writing and its relationship to 'new nature painting'.
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