“Ross Taylor’s kaleidoscopic landscape paintings depict a vivid undulating world shaped by the artist’s memories, psychology, and spirituality. The British artist lives and works in the Macedon Ranges in Australia, where for him, the natural world is an invitation for play. Building on the theatrical qualities of historical landscape painting, Taylor applies light, color, and form to surreally dramatize hills, trees, streams, rocks, and flowers. He mines the fringes of his memories, finding the failings and inconsistencies to be entryways to psychologically and spiritually charging the landscape.”
Kirsten Cave, Associate Director, Alexander Berggruen Gallery, New York
‘The disordered pattern of remembered personal experience, mirrors the flow state he atains while working and he has increasingly allowed the glitches and inconsistencies of his own memories to shape his decision making as he paints.In this way his landscapes are slowly evolving into landscapes of the mind, reflective not just of places seen and imagined, but of the psychological process underpinning them.”
Rebecca Edwards, Curator, Australian Art, National Gallery of Australia
“With every stroke, Taylor’s works bring spaces alive. Step into his world of expression, away from the expectations of the everyday – postmodernism’s photorealist overlay, for example, or the mute emptiness with which we see so much of the modern landscape today. Taylor’s is a knowing history, brought into the present day. Intimations toward grand vistas. Tracks burned into the sky by a setting sun, a golden glow over a mountain range. An invitation to see the immediate, then beyond. To paint is to imagine. Arcadia, indeed.”
Brett M Levine, Arts Writer and Curator
