Occupying both Galleries 1 and 2 at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Gallery is a major exhibition of selected, mixed media works from the year 2000 to the present by the artist George Taylor who I have admired for a long time. The exhibition entitled, Spaces of Invention and Places of Imagination, will include two paintings from 1961 and 1963, completed just after the outset of George’s career which now spans more than 54 years.
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Wild Sea Rising
George Taylor’s long development as an artist has come from a constant belief in painting in his own search for a visual language, which through his integrity and commitment towards abstraction has resulted in a body of work which may be considered as equivalent, not necessarily for a specific physical landscape feature so much as an allusion to an unseen, but intensely felt force in nature at a particular time and place.
George Taylor, The Air’s Buoyancy and the Sun’s Rays.
There is for George an optimistic belief in the nature of creativity experienced through the dynamics of risk-taking in visual terms. He explores the potential within the paradoxical nature of a space between certainty and doubt. It is the very nature of this dynamic that continues to inform his art and provide the fundamental principles underlying his purpose as an artist.
George Taylor, Firebird.
George Taylor says of his work: “for over 45 years I have sought to explore the mysteriousness of living through painting. So far as I can see, it is the magic of mystery that creates great art and art without that magic is lifeless.”
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George Taylor at the RBSA
