The Great Atlantic Galleries

carrie taylor
a natural colour

Corn marigolds, field corner, Boscregan
56 x 56cm acrylic on board

Carrie Taylor 'A Natural Colour'

“This exhibition is made up of a cross-section of work completed during the past twelve months. The subjects are ones based on my observations traveling the lanes and by-ways near my home in St Just-in-Penwith. As my paintings are closely related to the changing seasons, it is always a challenge to put together a selection which conveys this, whilst at the same time covering the many and varies aspects of West Cornwall.

“Each turn in a track or a lane reveals an intricate network of leaves and branches and each rock-hollow on the seashore, a secret world of reflections, pebbles and seaweed.

“My horizon is as often the top of a Cornish hedge as it is of a distant wave.

“Each painting often begins as an acrylic base using thin paint almost randomly, applying and removing areas. This is followed by a layer of oil paint, again thin, and scratching out, drawing into, printing and painting over - whatever will achieve the desired effect.

“Chance and control are used together to produce an intricacy without getting bogged down with too much detail.

“Sometimes I include a bird or insect as an integral part of the whole, occasionally using its natural camouflage.

“Then again the subject might simply be gold gorse against the sky, or a section of a Cornish hedge alive with summer flowers or wintry grasses and seed heads.”

Carrie Taylor
St Just-in-Penwith
Spring 2007

Carrie Taylor studied at Harrogate College of Art and Bradford Art College and was also taught by Jean Georges Simon, a French artist who became a major influence on her work. Simon was a close friend of Bourdelle and Modigliani when he lived and worked in Paris. Carrie lives in St Just-in-Penwith, where her lifelong fascination with natural history is blended in her paintings with her observations of hedgerows, moorland, water and rocks throughout the seasons.

Please call 01326 318452 / 01736 788911 or e-mail: gallery@greatatlantic.co.uk to reserve the painting of your choice.

Paintings may be collected by arrangement or we can arrange delivery from as little as £20 depending on size and distance. Money back if not entirely satisfied (provided we are informed within 3 days of your painting being collected/delivered). Cheques and all major credit cards accepted. Colours may vary between the original paintings and the reproductions shown here. All paintings are framed.