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A solo exhibition of my paintings will be at the Benham Gallery, Cuckoo Farm Studios on 27 June to 5 July 2009 - gallery is only open weekends from 11am until 4pm. I will be invigilating. The show is called 'Sleeping Heads'.

Linda (Mum) was selected for Eastern Open 2009. The painting won a prize from the Wyss Foundation - £100.

   
    A series of work - birthing forms
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  Cropped picture of a painting called Interconnected five - 60 inches by 48 inches - 2007 - oil on canvas.   Click here for a larger view of my painting. It is called Interconnected 1 and is oil and sand on canvas, it measures 60inches by 48inches. It is part of a new series.  
Cropped picture of painting by Harvey taylor called Inconnected three - 2007 - 60inchesX 48 inches   cropped picture of Interconnected II - oil on canvas - 60 inches by 48 inches  
   
Four of my abstract paintings - each painting measures 60 inches (152 cms) by 48 inches (122 cms) and they are oil and sand on canvas. See pictures of my 2007 Solo show in order to see them in a gallery space.
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Paintings of Phoebe
Phoebe sleeping with jumper - oil on canvas -  50cm x 70 cm - 2008 - price on request - by Harvey Taylor   Phoebe asleep in the car - oil on canvas - 90 cm x 60cm - oil on canvas -  by Harvey Taylor - price on request  
Some drawings
Birthing forms - ink on canvas mounted on board - 2007 - by Harvey Taylor - price on request     Oyster shells by Harvey Taylor - ink on paper - A4 size          
Gallery 1
Roller Series - Paintings
Gallery 2
Chickenwire Series
Gallery 3
Automatic pen and ink
Gallery 4
New work in progress
Gallery 5
Figure paintings
                Figurative / Photo paintings below
The large one of Phoebe is 122cm x 92cm - Oil on canvas The other painting in progress is 90cm x 60cm - oil on canvas - Mum
 
Oyster Shells - ink on paper
Two paintings by Harvey Taylor
  Birthing Form - ink on canvas - 2007                        
   
Painting (below)
Oil on canvas - 60cm x 90cm
painting by Harvey Taylor 2008
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Painting below is 'Phoebe' - it oil on canvas and measures 48 inches by 36 inches.
 
Painting by Harvey Taylor - Phoebe - oil on canvas - 48 inches by 36 inches
Picture of phoebe Phoebe looking down by Harvey Taylor - 25cm x 36cm - oil on canvas  
Cuckoo Farm Studios, Boxted Road, Colchester. CO4 5HH
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Phoebe looking down - Oil on canvas
25cm X 36cm

Phoebe No.V - Oil on canvas
30cm X 40cm
29 April 2009
Painting below is almost finished - a bit of a marathon
It is oil on canvas - 48 inches by 36 inches.
 

Painting below - Linda (Mum) - March 2009 - oil on canvas - 90cm x 60cm

This painting was Selected for the Eastern Open 09.
It won a prize - from the Wyss foundation

  Painting of 'Debbie' by Harvey Taylor - oil on canvas - 48 inches by 36 inches       Selected for Eastern Open 2009 - Painting by Harvey Taylor - oil on canvas - Mum - 90cm x 60 cm - 2009    
                             
 
Drawings of Phoebe
ink on paper ink on paper ink on paper   Oil pastel and ink on  paper
Painting in progress - June 2009
Painting by Harvey Taylor - 'Tom' oil on canvas - 100cm x 60cm - 2009  
  This painting to the left is in progress and is nearly finished (June 16th 2009). Building up the image in strips and squares - the strips are becoming more apparent - do I leave the evidence of its making in the painting? Painting is 100cm x 60 cm - oil on canvas.
Continuing the theme of sleeping heads.
 
   
                   

About me

The painting process is like a ritual that is very gradually transformed over time. Lately my work has taken a turn towards realism and superrealism - I am currently looking at the work of the photorealists, such as Malcolm Morley, and examining their techniques such as grids and building up the pictures a square at a time - one of my latest 'Mum' uses this process. I am attempting to analyse the photograph in an abstract and objective manner whilst staying true to more painterly qualities such as colour mixing, mark making and layering paint. Working into the hair I have discovered many links to my abstract painting. Working like this is a transformative process. It is almost the opposite to my earlier abstract direction - I am working whilst sitting as opposed to standing - it is a different, contained energy - a process that is constructive, building complex colour patches with layers.

The process of my abstract paintings is akin to forms emerging from a blank slate or 'tabula rasa'. Natural forms such as shells inspire the forms and shapes and dried husks that twist and undulate and these shapes form a vocabulary that has been built up over time. The work engages with the unconscious and I find ways of letting the forms flow from a constant engagement with the surface of the canvas. Working in a way that tries to conjure up ideas I usually start with no clear idea for a painting but rather look to my last work or works in a series for a direction. The latest abstract works are formed by taking away paint from a ground colour with a brush thus creating lines which intertwine into shapes and flowing forms. Painting around them with white primer then isolates the shapes - so there is a figure/ ground relationship. This process has come about through doing a series of woodcuts where I am cutting away the surface and revealing lines on the wood, which will be printed.

Previous work has involved using chicken wire as a mask to paint through with gloss rollers or working intensely with an dip ink pen on paper, conjuring up nests and swirling forms that eat back into themselves. Working close up to the surface not totally aware of how the work is progressing as a whole and then stepping back to see what has materialised and then reworking and teasing out structures.

 

 
 
       
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