Art & Culture
ARTIST AT WORK
No.37: Michael Taylor, Three Tiered Table, Oil, 117cm x 81cm, £POA
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ince leaving Goldsmiths in 1973 I have been working more or less continuously on one picture at a time, one after the other. Spending some months on each means that not only do they develop their own individual structure, but can contain the complexity of content that I favour. Working in this way also means they hopefully release this content equally slowly to the viewer. An unexpected benefit of choosing to paint figuratively and sequentially has been that it collectively adds up to a kind of visual diary of my surroundings, friends and family through the years, with continuity provided by familiar objects or people appearing repeatedly. Three Tiered Table was the result of wanting to convey a feeling of someone gazing down through their own reflection into a slightly displaced inner space: a kind of high-rise Narcissus. It was painted in my studio in Child Okeford where I lived and worked for 30 years until moving to Dorchester recently, so it will be very special for me to be showing it at the Art Stable along with other works created there, particularly as this will be my first gallery show outside central London for forty years, and by chance coincides with my 70th birthday. __________________________________________________________ Saturday 5th February - Saturday 5th March 2022 Michael Taylor - Attic Stories The Art Stable, Gold Hill Organic Farm, Child Okeford, Blandford DT11 8HB
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6 | Sherborne Times | December 2021
