Karen Taylor
Recently I have shown my work at The Offices of the Lieutenant Governor, TOAF, TAP, The Art Gallery of Hamilton, The Art Gallery of Northumberland, ADC Fine Art (Cincinatti), Dignam Gallery, and John B Aird Gallery.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My work is about our humanity, and also the lack of it. It's about how we strive to keep it and about how others try to take it away. It's about what makes us human: our flaws and our strengths. To be human is live imperfectly, but to be capable of greatness.
Bold Type, my latest collection does this by celebrating the art of typography, these acrylic paintings explore the abstract patterns our words create. I feature my favourite pieces of text. It can be a favourite phrase, just a word, perhaps a song lyric, sometimes a meaningful quote.
Recently I have shown my work at The Offices of the Lieutenant Governor, TOAF, TAP, The Art Gallery of Hamilton, The Art Gallery of Northumberland, ADC Fine Art (Cincinatti), Dignam Gallery, and John B Aird Gallery.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My work is about our humanity, and also the lack of it. It's about how we strive to keep it and about how others try to take it away. It's about what makes us human: our flaws and our strengths. To be human is live imperfectly, but to be capable of greatness.
Bold Type, my latest collection does this by celebrating the art of typography, these acrylic paintings explore the abstract patterns our words create. I feature my favourite pieces of text. It can be a favourite phrase, just a word, perhaps a song lyric, sometimes a meaningful quote.
$1,350.00
Acrylic on canvas.
30x30"
This is not you're Grandmother's cross stitch.
$920.00
Acrylic on Canvas
24x24"
We’re better together, let’s celebrate that!
All of those relationships that we took for granted, we know the importance of them now.
$1,730.00
Acrylic on Canvas
24x48"
If you’re not angry you’re not paying attention.
$1,730.00
Acrylic on Canvas
48x24"
Blah blah blah. Blah. Blah blah, blah blah blah blah blah!
Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah blah blah, blah blah blah. Blah Blah. Blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah, blah blah blah blah blah? Blah blah blah blah blah.
$3,450.00
Acrylic on canvas.
48x48"
“You can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometimes, well, you might find
You get what you need” – The Rolling Stones
Are you happy that that dream didn’t come true? How often do you miss out on something to find out that where you ended up is so much better? How often do you look back and realise you had a lucky escape?
$3,450.00
Acrylic on canvas.
48x48"
“We like dancing and we look divine”
– David Bowie, Rebel Rebel
$1,950.00
Acrylic on canvas.
36x36"
“There is a crack, a crack, in everything.
That’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
Where we heal from being broken leaves beautiful scars that make us stronger. This universal thought on pain and resilience has been with us for a long time, in the 13th century Rumi is quoted as saying “The wound is where the light enters.”
This idea has been echoed down through the ages by such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Ernest Hemingway, but I think that the finest example is this one by our own Leonard Cohen.
$1,950.00
Acrylic on canvas.
36x36"
“Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see”
– John Lennon
It is so much easier to be happy and live a more content life if we shut our eyes to what is around us. Especially at the moment.
But is that who we want to be. Closing our eyes to what is going on in the world. Closing our eyes to others’ suffering. Closing our eyes to the changes in the world and what they mean. Closing our eyes to the problems our friends are going through. Closing our eyes to the things that are difficult and not our problem. Closing our eyes to the things that are inconvenient because they bring us down.
It is much easier to exist just for ourselves, to block out anything negative around us, but perhaps our lives are the emptier for it.
$1,730.00
Acrylic on canvas.
48x24"
This particular painting is part of my "In Our Nature" series, landscapes formed from the names of the objects in the scene.
The series is based on the idea that it's in our nature to name everything in our surroundings. Labelling helps us to understand something, to tame it, to bring order to it, perhaps to even control or dismiss it.