Colin Taylor
‘Landscapes’ in some form or another, have figured in my paintings for
quite a few years. That inclusion took on more significance after I
rediscovered the importance of drawing to my practice. It seems for me at
least, to be a way of responding, not so much about a specific place, but
more about the experience of being in that place at that time.
Consequently, the process of mark-making for me, is not an optical
experience but an emotional one.
The use of charcoal and graphite provides a kind of immediacy that seems
to resonate with the eclipse of one moment by another and so extends that
experience through a visual language which is to me, more valuable than
leaden fact.
Coniston Water 1
Coniston Water 2
Charcoal 2
Coniston Old Man
Charcoal 1
Charcoal 3
