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Harvey Taylor
About
Born London - 1970
Lived in and around Ashford, moved to Winchester for my degree and then back to Canterbury to find myself and eventually enrol on a PGCE course at Canterbury. Then moved to Colchester where I am currently based for a teaching post at the Sixth From college - where I am now the Subject Head of Fine Art. Since moving to Colchester I have worked steadily to build up a collection of work in my studio at Cuckoo Farm Studios and my studio at home.
I seek to make bold and dynamic paintings with sensual, undulating and organic forms that rise and fall with a breathless elegance. The recent paintings have taken natural forms as their starting point but the paintings due to their technique are reminiscent of Neo-Impressionist Seurat and the vortices of the Futurists, especially the centripetal and centrifugal forces in Severinin late paintings.
The marks have been made through a chickenwire mesh which allows me to build up layers of colours in bursts, allowing previous layers to seep through and interact with the surface. Texture is employed, mixing sand with the oil paint, and I prefer to use rollers to build up layers of colour and overlapping curves. Lately the work has shifted into realism.
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- Location
- Colchester, United Kingdom
- Website
- http://www.harveytaylor.co.uk
1997 PGCE - Secondary Education - Art and Design, Canterbury Christ Church College, Canterbury, Kent
1993 BA (Hons) Fine Art - 2.1, Winchester School of Art, Winchester, Hampshire
1990 Foundation course, Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury, Kent
Solo Exhibitions
2005 Shaping Colour at the Digby Gallery, The Mercury Theatre, Colchester
2005 Benham Gallery, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester
2004 The Garden Cafe. Firstsite @ The Minories - Colchester
2003 McCleans Bar, Colchester
2003 Head Street Gallery, Halstead, Essex
2002 Priory Galleries, Colchester
2001 Les Livres Gallery, Colchester
2001 and 1999 Trinity Street Studios, Colchester
2000 Inkpen Downie Gallery, Colchester
1999 Gallery 73, Brighton
1999 Chambers Gallery, Ipswich
1999 Nevill Gallery, Canterbury
Mixed / Group Shows
2005 Babylon Gallery, Ely. Cuckoo Farm Studios group show
2005 The Pond Gallery, Snape Maltings, Suffolk. Cuckoo Farm group show.
2004 John Antony, Colchester
2004 The Art School, Colchester Colchester Arts Society Open exhibition
2004 Buckenham Galleries, Southwold, Suffolk - The Poetry of Art
2004 Buckenham Galleries, Cuckoo Farm Studios group show
2003 The Nude, Cabaret Voltaire, Colchester
2003 Buckenham Galleries, Southwold - Summer show - Invited artist
2003 The Mill Apartments, paintings chosen by Director of Firstsite
1999 - 2004 Colchester and Tendring Open Studios
2002 The Best of East Anglian Art
2001 Hays Galleria, London
1999 Firstsite@The Minories, Colchester - On the Shelf
1995 Riviera Gallery, Hastings - 'Moves in Black and White'
1994 Slaughterhouse Gallery, London
1993 Wiggins BMW Showroom, Winchester
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