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The Works section of this site contains a selection of oil paintings by the contemporary British figurative painter, Michael Taylor. Michael is a winner of the National Portrait Gallery John Player Award (subsequently the BP Award), the Holburne Contemporary Portrait Prize, and the Millfield Open Art Competition.
The paintings presented on this site are from the period since the artist left Goldsmiths College School of Art, but are largely drawn from more recent years. Most of these works are in private and public collections and have been exhibited at various galleries. These include the Royal Academy (London), Waterhouse and Dodd (London), Beaux Arts (London and Bath), the Morley Gallery, the Mall Galleries (Hunting Group Award 3rd prize, and Royal Society of Portrait Painters). His works are also exhibited by the National Portrait Gallery (London, England), for whom he was commissioned to paint portraits of the guitarist and lutenist, Julian Bream, and of the crime-fiction writer, P D James. The National Portrait Gallery have also purchased a portrait by Michael of composer, Sir John Tavener. His painting, Couple with Lamp, won the 2002 Holburne Contemporary Portrait Prize, which lead to the commission to paint jazz saxophonist, Andy Sheppard for the permanent collection of the Holburne Museum of Art.
Michael's recent portrait of Paul Beckett can be seen in the The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, at the Mall Galleries in London, until Sunday 11 May, 2008.
You can find out how to get in touch with the artist on the Contact page. You can find help about "How to use the Michael Taylor website" on the Guide page. There is more detailed biographical information about Michael Taylor on the Biography page, and there is a page dedicated to his acclaimed portraiture. You can access the biog page and the other sections of this site by clicking on the buttons in the navigation table at the top left of each page. The kernel of the website is the Works section, which contains images of many of Michael Taylor's paintings. The works are organised into five categories. The paintings in the Interiors category include several prize-winning contemporary canvases. The Figures were all painted in the artist's home, many are set in his attic studio. Michael Taylor's Still Lifes are admired for their intensity and highly-refined paint surface. In and around the year 2000, the artist produced a distinctive series of powerful paintings of Heads. The Portraits category displays a examples of the artist's portraiture, including commissions for national collections. A list of links to various relevant websites may be found on the external links page. Reciprocal and courtesy links are honoured with their own special associate links page. |
Grl rstng on swvl chr, 2006: purchased by The Scheringa Museum, Netherlands