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Seeing Water
'Almost these mindless waters work
as though they had a soul'
Rudyard Kipling
New
projects
• Rheidol
Valley
• Hale Fen
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work.
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Blow Up, New Painting and
Photoreality
Catalogue cover Jason Brooks. Artists included
Ross Hansen, Clive Head, Ben Johnson,
Masakatsu Kondo, John Salt, Stephen Taylor.
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- 22nd March 2012. Talk about painting oaks
and book signing at Belgravia Books, 59 Ebury
Street, London. For info. click here
- January/February 2012 Field
trip : seeing water in the Rheidol
valley.
- Press, 1st December
2011.
Princeton Architectural
Press, New York, USA: Publisher's information
Some
reviews:
" Some books show you how to laugh, some
show you how to think, but, every once a while, one will show you
how to live. The exquisite Oak: One Tree, Three Years, and Fifty
Paintings follows of the story of artist Stephen
Taylor..."
"...and in all
weathers. The result of this gentle fanaticism is what he describes
as a 'journey that explored a single location'". p49 January 2 2012 "... observation stripping away
preconcieved ideas of "oak tree" and replacing them with wholly new
discoveries..."
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Martin Newman: "... full of
analysis of sunlight and shadow, of gradients of paint and how the
eye plays tricks on the mind. It is the diary of an artisan,
obsessive in its chronicling of technique and the thought processes
that led to the final image.
But on personal details it is scant..."
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and in here
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"... paintings of that particular tree he made during
three years, and the journey of light and colour on which it sent
him"
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" Taylor is no
romantic...The sensibility... is a contemporary one, exacting yet
without cold scientific analysis, and stripped of the affectations
and self-conscious post-stylistic mindset of the
'post-contemporary'...
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"Oak: One Tree, Three Years, Fifty Paintings is a profound
treatise on beauty, change, and the enormous challenge of seeing
the real world clearly."
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" John Mollon, professor of neuroscience
at the University of Cambridge, has described Taylor's work as
'parsing nature'. I wish I could notice the day as it passes as
lovingly and perceptively as Taylor does in these paintings.
My days hurry by in a homogeneous haze of fluorescent strip
lighting and computer screen glow."
Read more here
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Red Lion Books, Colchester, owner Peter Donaldson said "It
is a unique book the likes of which we haven't seen
before." p73 November 25
2011
" ...elsewhere, the
painter Stephen Taylor continues his remarkable...study of the same
oak tree in Essex..."
Read more
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- October 2010 - Summer 2011: Lived one meter below sea level in
a small house on the fens painting water and writing 'Oak'.
- August and September 2010: Lecture tour, Australia and New
Zealand. Topics: Observation, material and imagination in John
Constable; Trompe L'oeil and interiors.
- published in 2009, has a chapter on the
working practices of the artist :
"...It is the close of an exceptionally hot summer day. Taylor
is outside in his field, preparing to work through the
night.
The moon is rising above the nearby village of West Bergholt,
a view which he spent four and a half years painting before
shifting to the richer possibilities of a single tree..."
- O.K. Harris, 383 West Broadway, NY 10012, NY, USA
view paintings by request, ongoing to September 2009
www.okharris.com
- Royal Academy Summer Show
Piccadilly, London
9th June - 17th August 2008
www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/summer-exhibition/
- The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
November 2007
- O.K Harris, 383 West Broadway, NY 10012, NY , USA
Summer Invitational Exhibition
www.okharris.com
June2 - July13; September 4-8, 2007
- Vertigo , Shoreditch, London
OAK : one man show about a single tree (below)
www.vertigogallery.co.uk
Autumn 2006
- Mark Jason Gallery, New Bond Street, London
"Scapes", group show
28th June - 23 July 2004
- St Paul's Gallery, Northwood Street , Birmingham, U.K.
" Blow Up" New painting and photoreality.
February - April 2004 (Catalogue available from info@stpaulsgallery.com)
- Vertigo
"30x30" group show
December 2003
- Vertigo
"Paperwork" group show
August 2003
- The Blue Gallery, Great Sutton Street , London.
"Landscape" group show
October 2003
- Vertigo, Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, London.
"Landscape" group show
Spring 2003
- King's College Cambridge, The Arts Centre.
One man show focusing on a single field near West Bergholt on the
Essex/Suffolk border - (Catalogue) Spring 2002
King's College,
Cambridge catalogue
- Country Life magazine, March 25th 2009, Our
Landscape : Paint it or loose it, Alain de Botton.
- Standpoint magazine, March 2009, Drawing
Board feature.
- Essex Life magazine, February 2008, An Eye on
Nature, Caroline Foster
- Birds, August-October 2008, magazine of The Royal
Society for The Protection of Birds, Violet
Blackbirds.
- AJRI, American Journal of Reproductive Immunology,
September 2005, Essex University conference welcome feature.
- Church Building, May/June 2004, The Hospitality of
Abraham feature.
- Art London, Chelsea
With Vertigo Gallery (below)
Summer 2006
- Art London, Chelsea
With Vertigo Gallery
Summer 2005
- Art London, Chelsea, June 2004
With Vertigo Gallery
- London Art fair, Islington, January 2004
With Vertigo Gallery
- 20/21 British Art Fair 2003, Kensington.
With The Blue Gallery
- Art London, Chelsea, Summer 2003
With Vertigo Gallery
- Olympia, London, Spring 2003
With Mark Jason Fine Art, New Bond Street, London
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