large prints
Two panoramas from a four year project in a single field in North Essex. First shown at King's College Cambridge.
"It was a journey that explored a single location and helped me to recover a sense of where I was in life. I drew on the tradition that I felt most strongly about, of observed landscape, but I wanted to show that landscape painting - nature painting - could be modern. I would make six-feet-wide paintings like Constable, but they would be new. I began to work on ways that would help me paint nature in a fresh way and to help me make visual contact with this new place..."
Extract from 'Oak: one tree, three years, fifty paintings.'
"It was a journey that explored a single location and helped me to recover a sense of where I was in life. I drew on the tradition that I felt most strongly about, of observed landscape, but I wanted to show that landscape painting - nature painting - could be modern. I would make six-feet-wide paintings like Constable, but they would be new. I began to work on ways that would help me paint nature in a fresh way and to help me make visual contact with this new place..."
Extract from 'Oak: one tree, three years, fifty paintings.'
Spring, West Bergholt, England
signed limited edition of 95
315gsm fine acid free cotton paper
image 6ft x 3ft approx / 1820mm x 910mm
paper 6ft 6ins x 3ft 7ins approx / 1900mm x 1010mm
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Display at Gray's Inn Square, London.
"Stephen Taylor explores a range of styles to express different moods. My favourite is a wide landscape of wheat, a man walking towards the artist along tractor tracks in the right-hand corner of the image while a pair of pigeons swoop above. The heads of wheat are painted with extraordinary detail and realism..."
Nick Gibbs, Living Woods, January 2012
