Secret Country w.35.5cm x h.19.5cm £750	Mysterious Land w.39cm x h.22.5cm £750	Space Portal w.40.5cm x h.22cm £750	Midsummer Odyssey w.40.5cm x h.30.5cm £950	Towards the Mountain w.40cm x h.30.5cm £950
Moving West w.40.5cm x h.30cm £950	Edge of Space w.50cm x h.39.5cm £1,250	Time Portal w.61cm x h.45.5cm £1,500	Matter of Time w.61cm x h.51cm £1,750	Quantum Move w.76cm x h.50.5cm £2,500

         All works are mixed media, sold in a ready to hang state being set into a deep, wide, off white mount into a deep, limewashed hardwoodframe.                 Size stated is painting size prior to framing.

Paintings for sale by George Taylor can be found in our art shop

Contact

George Taylor

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Website: www.georgetaylorart.com

Membership: LSA (Leamington Studio Artists)

Exhibition

"A Coherent Optimist"

Sun 9th March to Sun 11th May 2008       Where I Fell In Love Gallery

Statement

Essence of Places

I do not paint landscapes, but make images of places, that attempt to capture what for me is at least in part the essence or "soul" of a place.

Certain places are profoundly moving and like life itself, possess a sense of innate mystery.

It is that mysteriousness that causes me to want to make a painting.

There seems to be a problem with humans, in that we find it near nigh impossible to accept experience at the level of mystery.

In order to become less fearful and more secure we appear to have a need to attempt to demystify and take refuse in such things as science and religion.

We deny mystery and delude ourselves into believing that we are in control, in order to manage the experience of living. It could be claimed that the act of "representing" nature in two dimensions is a part of this process.

It is undeniable that life is essentially a mystery and cannot adequately be explained, by any means so far at our disposal.

For over 45 years I have sought to explore the mysteriousness of living, through painting.

A landscape is a location comprised of space, land, organic matter, light and colour, affected by the weather and the seasons and processed via our prevailing mood or state of mind and all those manifold and subjective things that make us individuals.

Some places however, are much more than the sum of their parts, just like life itself. They appear to retain a "memory" of events that occurred there and our experience of them is in turn influenced by our knowledge of these past events.

There is something indefinable about certain places that engender powerful emotions and responses, which for me are not best expressed in words.

I do not paint the place I saw, but the place I experienced. I am not concerned with making a figurative representation of a place, or with creating spatial illusions.

The result is an image on a flat surface, recollecting an experience, but equally and more importantly creating a new and unique place, that is different to the one that inspired it.

So far as I can see, it is the magic of mystery that creates great art and art without that magic is lifeless.

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