SCIENCE INSPIRED GALLERIES
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When
I began painting I experimented with many styles. These included
surrealistic paintings, abstracts, sculptures, assemblages,
environments
and text based art - many of which I have continued to explore. I
also produce a wide range of conventional figurative work.
I wanted
to find a means of continuous creation in my work and in 1976 I found a
style that enabled me to maximise and test my inventive ability. I
began
to experiment with sequential and elaborative formats that allow a
systematic
analysis and elaboration of a thematic image or idea. I also
began
to combine images, symbols, numbers and words with controlling
structures
derived from science and mathematics. With tongue in cheek
I coined the term IONIST ART for this work (this is what you get if you
remove express from Expressionist Art!). I also use the more
descriptive
term of MEDITATIVE PROCESS ART for this very complex work (please
click here for notes on how to read my paintings).
My
interest in system based art diversified in the eighties. I began
to use music forms as structures for my work and also became fascinated
with merging painting with writing and theatrical ideas - setting
poetry
to paintings, image dramas and performance pieces, etc. Typically, the
music based work consisted of a thematic statement followed by a series
of variations or a development section where the initiating material is
expanded and explored.
I am
also producing a series of MEDITATIVE LANDSCAPES, STILL LIFES &
PORTRAITS.
This work combines observation with the systems, image sequences
and symbols developed in my other work.
The landscapes etc.
attempt
a more holistic representation of the natural world and the portraits
attempt
the characterisation of a person using colours, symbols and signs.
I have
shown regularly at the Loggia Gallery in London and I have had many
other
exhibitions of my work. I have paintings in private collections,
public buildings and on business premises throughout England.
I
showed
regularly
with
the
international
Free
Painters
&
Sculptors
as
well
as
other
national and local art groups. I have
also exhibited
with
Elyn Carleton's "Creators" and "Innovators" groups. My work can also be
found on many online galleries.
I am
happy to work to commission and I will consider any project, either
solo
or collaborative.
| The artist's work had no direct
link with past modes
of thought, but it seemed in my view to fall somewhere between Indian
or
Oriental art and the hieroglyphics of the Egyptians. Painstakingly, and
with great precision, most of the work was arranged in a kind of Board
Game/Strip Cartoon style with numbers, arrows, animals and abstract
designs
pigeon-holed within various compartments.
Edward Taylor -1991
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NATURE INSPIRED GALLERIES
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I founded
the IONIST ART GROUP in 1987 to forge links between members of the
artistic
and scientific communities. The Group organised regular meetings
and attempted to initiate collective art-science projects.
I also
organised group exhibitions for like minded artists in the Eighties
using
the name PROCESS ART GROUP.
I expanded
my areas of interest in the early Nineties and began to create and
stage
events of all kinds to raise funds and campaign for charities.
Part
of this work was done under the name of ARTISTS FOR ANIMALS.
In
1994 I began a series of exhibitions under the name of MODERN WILTSHIRE
ARTISTS with the aim of presenting and promoting Modern Art in my local
area.
For more
information please visit my facebook artist site and follow the links to IONIST ART and
THE ARTIST WHO HELPS ANIMALS.
