Artist

 

 

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Photo copyright  Ken Adlard

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.

exhibitions and events click here

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

 


new project
Seeing Water :

 

 

 

 

 

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interview  by Martin Newman for the Huffington Post click here