Colin Taylor

Colin Taylor studied at Loughborough and at Nottingham where he followed a multi-disciplinary course involving both fine art and drama.

Colin has exhibited in a number of group and solo exhibitions mostly, though not exclusively, in the UK and has worked in a marketing capacity as a consultant to several other organisations involved in the visual and performing arts. Alongside this he has continued to climb mountains and value’s the experience of being in remote places and in being part of that huge landscape.

After a number of career episodes involving the advertising industry, theatre, tourism and the public sector Colin ended up where he now lives in South Manchester, England. He has climbed in Europe, South America and in Asia and now manages to divide his time between mountaineering and painting. Each activity influences the other.



Statement
‘Landscapes’ in some form or another, have figured in my paintings for quite a few years. That inclusion took on more significance after I re-discovered the importance of drawing to my practice. It seems for me at least, to be a way of responding, not so much about a specific place, but more about the experience of being in that place at that time. Consequently, the process of mark making for me, is not an optical experience but an emotional one.

The use of charcoal and graphite provides a kind of immediacy that seems to resonate with the eclipse of one moment by another and so extends that experience through a visual language which is to me, more valuable than leaden fact.




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