Alex Taylor

As an artist who focuses on oil painting, there is nothing that I enjoy more than creating works of art that represent the complexity and nuances of the natural world. Providing a viewer with the chance to reflect and ponder on a deeper level based on their own experiences and places they’ve been is something truly special to me as an artist. As my artistic practice has evolved, painting landscapes in oils has become something that I never stop thinking about, and right now I paint what I find expresses the natural world in its genuine form. I am neither a hyper-realistic painter nor an abstract-expressionist, however I strive to paint scenes that are true to the feeling of a time and place. Everywhere I go, I am thinking about how to communicate a specific scene with a harmonious cumulation of color, lighting, shapes, value, composition, atmosphere and subjective accuracy onto a surface for people to enjoy and connect with.

The prominence of technology today makes connecting with nature even more crucial, so painting the grandeur of even the simplest of scenes may help to remind us all to take a moment, from time to time, and acknowledge the beauty of everything around us. I will always be a student of the medium of oil paint, and observing nature and learning from the masters who painted before me will continue to be an influence for my practice of landscape painting.

As technology evolves, the natural world around us will continue to change… drastically. A landscape may change, but a painting can preserve the majesty of a time and place in a beautiful and serene way. As you stand in front of my paintings, I ask you to put yourself in the scene and truly try to gain a sense of place in the environment that you see before you.