Colin Taylor

It would be easy to define much of my work as landscape painting. But in so doing, I should perhaps make the distinction that it is not just the landscape we see that interests me, but the landscape we experience. This became obvious to me from the mid 1990’s, when after starting an outdoor pursuits company, I began to travel and climb more widely to climb mountains in South America, Africa and Asia.

I came to realise that climbing was as much of a psychological challenge as it was a physical one – so through my work i began to explore a visual language that is not an optical expression, but an emotional one. It is probably more about what I can’t explain, but know to be there and is not restricted by ‘proven fact’ or physicality.

Recent solo exhibitions
2008
Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury University, Kent
Farfield Arts Centre, Sedbergh, Cumbria
Denbigh Library and Art Gallery, Wales

2009
Darlington Arts Centre, Teeside
Wendy Levy Contemporary Art, Manchester
‘Brantwood’, Coniston, Cumbria
Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, Cumbria
Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery, South Yorkshire
20/21 Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, Derbyshire
New Greenham Arts, Newbury, Oxfordshire.

2010
SCA Gallery, Shrewsbury

2011
Liverpool Anglican Cathedral
Wendy Levy Contemporary Art, Manchester

Group Projects
1987 Galleri Lang, Malmo, Sweden.
1990 Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. (Touring Exhibition)
1991 Gallerie Impact, Albi, Toulouse, France
1993 Oriel Gallery, Clwyd (3 person show)
2007 ’Changing 8’ Liverpool Hope University (drawings)
2008 ‘Directions in Drawing’ Brindley Arts Centre, Runcorn
2009 ‘Imagining Landscapes’ Derby City Art Gallery
2010 Art Miami & San Diego Art Fair
with Brenda Taylor Gallery, New York.