George Taylor

Gallery 5

Elemental Series, Mixed Media Works on Deep Canvas and the Penwith Suite

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"Throughout my career I have endeavoured to create images that convey maximum visual impact with minimum means, essentially within a non-figurative ethos. The word elemental has a variety of connotations, it can mean simple, uncompounded, pertaining to rudiments or to first principles, even primitive or basic. In painting terms, this could be construed as a kind of minimalism, an approach that strives not to be complicated, that perhaps, excludes extraneous or irrelevant content. Elemental pertains also to forces and phenomena of physical nature, and to the four natural elements, earth, water, air and fire, or to any combination of these.

In this series I have used paint and a variety of other media, primarily handmade paper to create abstract, or perhaps, more accurately, abstracted images of natural phenomena, not based on specific identifiable locations, but on feelings and recollections of lived experience, but broadly analogous with the sea and the coast. For this reason, the works are not titled individually, but are simply numbered within the series for purposes of reference."© George Taylor

 

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Elemental Series

         
Elemental 1 Elemental 2 Elemental 3 Elemental 4 Elemental 5
         
Elemental 1 by George Taylor Elemental 2 by George Taylor Elemental 3 by George Taylor Elemental 4 by George Taylor Elemental 5 by George Taylor
64cms x 64cms. 64cms x 64cms. 64cms x 64cms, 64cms x 64cms. 64cms x 64cms.
         
         
Elemental 6 Elemental 7 Elemental 8 Elemental 9 Elemental 10
         
Elemental 6 by George Taylor Elemental 7 by George Taylor Elemental 8 by George Taylor Elemental 9 by George Taylor Elemental 10 by George Taylor
64cms x 64cms. 64cms x 64cms 64cms x 64cms. 64cms x 64cms. 64cms x 64cms.
         
         
Elemental 11 Elemental 12 Elemental 13 Elemental 14 Elemental 15
         
Elemental 11 by George Taylor Elemental 12 by George Taylor Elemental 13 by George Taylor Elemental 14 by George Taylor Elemental 15 by George Taylor
64cms x 64cms. 64cms x 64cms. 64cms x 64cms. 64cms x 64cms. 64cms x 64cms.
         
         
Elemental 16 Elemental 17 Elemental 18 Elemental 19 Elemental 20
         
Elemental 16 by George Taylor Elemental 17 by George Taylor Elemental 18 by George Taylor Elemental 19 by George Taylor Elemental 20 by George Taylor
64cms x 64cms. 64cms x 64cms. 64cms x 64cms. 64cms x 64cms. 64cms x 64cms.
         
         
Elemental 21 Elemental 22 Elemental 23 Elemental 24 Elemental 25
         
Elemental 21 by George Taylor Elemental 22 by George Taylor Elemental 23 by George Taylor Elemental 24 by George Taylor Elemental 25 by George Taylor
64cms x 64cms. 64cms x 64cms. 64cms x 64cms. 64cms x 64cms. 64cms x 64cms.
         
         
Elemental 26 Elemental 27 Elemental 28 Elemental 29 Elemental 30
         
Elemental 26 by George Taylor Elemental 27 by George Taylor Elemental 28 by George Taylor Elemental 29 by George Taylor Elemental 30 by George Taylor
64cms x 64cms. 64cms x 64cms. 64cms x 64cms. 64cms x 64cms. 64cms x 64cms.
         
         
Elemental 31 Elemental 32 Elemental 33 Elemental 34 Elemental 35
         
Elemental 31 by George Taylor Elemental 32 by George Taylor Elemental 33 by George Taylor Elemental 34 by George Taylor Elemental 35 by George Taylor
64cms x 64cms. 64cms x 64cms. 64cms x 64cms. 64cms x 64cms. 64cms x 64cms.
         



Elemental Series

"Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions….

All colours bring forth specific associative ideas, tangible or psychological, while blue suggests at most, the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual nature what is most abstract."

Yves Klein.


Penwith Suite

         
Wheal Country Zawn Coast Small Penwith 1 Small Penwith 2 Penwith Headland
         
Wheal Country by George Taylor Zawn Coast by George Taylor mall Penwith 1 by George Taylor Small Penwith 2 by George Taylor Penwith Headland by George Taylor
2018 2018 36cms x 30cms, 2018
In a clear acrylic box
2018
72cms x 54cms, 2019
In a clear acrylic box

Mixed Media Mixed Media Mixed Media on canvas Mixed Media on canvas Mixed Media
         
         
Seaforce Penwith Seacoast Penwith Seasurge Penwith Seasurge Penwith, detail Seashorepiece 1
         
Seaforce Penwith by George Taylor Seacoast Penwith by George Taylor Seasurge Penwith by George Taylor Coastal Fragment 1 by George Taylor Seashorepiece 1 by George Taylor
68cms x 68cms, 2020 68cms x 68cms, 2020 77cms x 59cms x 13cms 2020 77cms x 59cms x 13cms 2020 64cms x 64cms, 2021
Mixed Media on Hand Made Indian Rag Paper Mixed Media on Hand Made Indian Rag Paper Mixed Media on Board
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Mixed Media on board
In a clear acrylic box
Mixed Media
         
         
Seasand Penwith 1 Coastal Fragment 1 Coastal Fragment 2 Coastal Fragment 3 Coastal Fragment 4
         
Seasand Penwith 1 by George Taylor Coastal Fragment 1 by George Taylor Coastal Fragment 2 by George Taylor Coastal Fragment 3 by George Taylor Coastal Fragment 4 by George Taylor
64cms x 64cms, 2021
2020 2020
2020

2020
Mixed Media Mixed Media Mixed Media Mixed Media Mixed Media
         
         
Flashflare        
         
FlasFlare, mixed media artwork by George Taylor        
 82cms x 67cms x 13cms 2023        
Mixed Media        
         


Penwith Suite

"The Penwith Suite is closely allied to my Elemental Series, but having it’s roots more firmly grounded in the unique landscape of West Penwith in Cornwall, both inland and coastal.

This is a landscape I have visited since the very early 1960’s and, to which I am perennially attracted. The landscape of that son of Cornwall, Peter Lanyon, and by extension that of Terry Frost, who whilst not of Cornish descent, was introduced to, and immersed in it’s treasures by Lanyon and who, in turn, became captivated by it, along with so many others; whom, whilst not native to Cornwall, have become associated with that group of modern painters whose names have become synonymous with St Ives and Newlyn."

© George Taylor, March 2018

Private studio visits welcome by prior arrangement.
All artwork measurements are inclusive of frame.

The Elemental Series and The Penwith Suite have significant elements of the third dimension, and are effectively, deep framed, wall hung sculptural works. The Elemental Series have forward projections from the wall plane of approximately 12.7 or 9.0 cms depending upon the depth of the content, and the forward projections of The Penwith Suite vary, with a maximum of 12.7cms, except Penwith Headland, where the acrylic box containment projects approximately 14.0 cms.

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