Stephen Taylor
Started as a research art historian, Leeds and Essex Universities and briefly, Yale. Then lectured part time in UK art schools while developing a career as a realist painter by doing commissions of anything and everything. This was followed by a mid career change to focus on landscape painting, with a first all-landscape show at King’s College Cambridge in 2002.
The painter featured in chapter six of Alain de Botton’s The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, 2010. Published Oak, one tree, three years, fifty paintings in 2011 – one of Oprah Winfrey’s fourty books to read before you’re fourty. Stephen’s work has sophisticated technical and historical roots but aims to overlap with popular practices. He is represented in collections world wide.
For more autobiography see : Oak
For events see: stephentaylorpaintings.com
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