Painting by Harvey Taylor- three figures in Berlin - 100cm x 100cm - in progress
Berlin New Year - oil on canvas - 100cm x 100cm - 2nd May 2011
Painting of the sea by Harvey Taylor - oil on canvas - in progress 102cm x 82cm
The Sea I - oil on canvas - 102 cm x 82cm - in progress - this is a fragment.
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2011

Through to 2nd Stage of the National Open Art Competition 2011 - and the work is on their website (Gallery 2)

Three paintings accepted for the 53rd Essex Open at the Beecroft Gallery.

Phoebe Asleep was awarded the Wyss Foundation Painting Prize at the Eastern Open 2011.
                                                                                                           
Heads Up - oil on canvas - 101 cm x 76 cm - 14 Jan 2012 Harvey Taylor - A Painter's Process at Slack Space 2010 - See pictures of solo show
 
 
Heads up _ oil painting by Harvey Taylor - a self portrait seen from below - 101cm x 76cm - finished jan 2012 Picture of show at Slack Space - 2010 - click here for more pictures
         
                                               
                                                   
                                                                 
 
 
                                                                                                         
                                                      Phoebe Asleep - oil on canvas - 122cm x 93cm -
25 February 2011		                                  
              Mum 2011 - oil on canvas - 122cm x 93cm                                                           The Cousins - oil on canvas - 122cm x 93cm - 29 Aug 2011
                                       
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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
            Mum by Harvey Taylor - a painting in oil - 122cm high and 93cm wide                             Phoebe Asleep - a painting of a girl sleeping by Harvey Taylor - 122cm high by 92cm wide - 2011                 The Cousins - painting by Harvey Taylor - oil on canvas - 122cm x 93cm - 29 August 2011  
 
                                                                                       
Phoebe - 155cm x 122cm - 10 August 2010

Anna - 60cm x 60cm - 25th August 2010
Phoebe - a painting by Harvey Taylor - 155cm x 122cm - 10th August 2010
      Anna - a painting by Harvey Taylor - oil on canvas - 60cm x 60cm - a commission August 2010or - Anna - oil on canvas - 60cm x 60cm                                                  
         
Etta - oil on canvas - 70cm x 60cm - Nov 2009  

Max - 70cm x 60cm - oil in canvas - March 2010

Ella - oil on canvas - 70cm x 60cm - Jan 2010

  
A commission - Painting of Etta by Harvey Taylor oil on canvas 70cm x 60cm - 2009   A commission - Max - oil on canvas by Harvey Taylor       A commission - Painting by Harvey Taylor - oil on canvas - 70cm x 60cm - Ellie
   
   

Phoebe Eyes Open - oil on canvas - 122cm x 92cm - 2010

 Millie - oil on canvas - 70cm x 60cm - 16 May 2010  

Liv - oil on canvas - 100cm x 60cm - 16 May 10
Phoebe Eyes Open by Harvey Taylor - oil on canvas - 122cm x 92cm 2010         A commission - Painting of Millie by Harvey Taylor - a commission - oil on canvas 70cm x 60cm - oil on canvas         A commission - Painting by Harvey Taylor - 70cm x 60cm - May 2010
 

June 2008
Phoebe looking down - Oil on canvas
25cm X 36cm

 'Phoebe Asleep' - oil on canvas - 122cm by 94cm - 2009.
Phoebe lying down
Oil on canvas - 60cm x 90cm - 2008
Painting by Harvey Taylor - Phoebe - oil on canvas - 48 inches by 36 inches
Phoebe looking down by Harvey Taylor - 25cm x 36cm - oil on canvas Phoebe sleeping in Bed by Harvey Taylor - oil on canvas - 100cm x 60cm            
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Cuckoo Farm Studios, Boxted Road, Colchester. CO4 5HH
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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
 
       
  May 2009
Debbie
Oil on canvas - 122cm x 92cm
 		                    June 2009
Tom - 100cm x 60cm - oil on canvas		                    
Selected for Eastern Open 2009 - Painting by Harvey Taylor - oil on canvas - Mum - 90cm x 60 cm - 2009
Debbie by Harvey Taylor - 122cm x 92 cm - oil on canvas               A commission - Tom by Harvey Taylor - oil on canvas - 100cm x 60cm          
       

See pictures of my solo exhibition at the Benham Gallery, Cuckoo Farm Studios on 27 June to 5 July 2009. The show was called 'Sleeping Heads'. See installation shots.

Selected for Eastern Open 2011, 2010, 2009 and National Open Art Competition, Chichester 2009

Prizes

Eastern Open 2011 - Wyss Foundation Painting Prize
Eastern Open 2009 - Wyss Foundation Prize
   

About me

The painting process is a ritual that is very gradually transformed over time. For me the process is a reductive one where I have pared down the making process. The paintings took a turn towards realism and superrealism and I am currently looking at the work of the photorealists and examining their techniques such as grids and building up the pictures a square at a time. 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. The photograph is a map or chart that I am using to navigate myself from one area to another. It is a contained energy, a process that is constructive and time consuming, building complex colour patches with overlapping layers.

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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