Summertime Garden

Helen Taylor ASGFA | Woodcut with Watercolour | 15 x 21 inches

Helen Taylor is primarily a printmaker working in woodcut and etching; usually working in series often producing hybrid prints, some combining print with hand-colouring and work which combines print with sculpture, photography, and found objects. Painting is used in her recent prints to give a greater range of colour, detail and texture to better show her intention which is to explore and amplify the natural world of trees, plants and flowers. Showing the incredible variety of colour and shape, the sheer diversity of what can grow in our own back gardens and local places.

Taylor also explores plants which are bred and live in ‘captivity’. A possible future for many plant species, and for our experience of them, certainly those which may not be able to survive and adapt to long term changes to their environment and the threats brought by climate change. The titles of these pieces ‘Bred in captivity, ‘What do we have to lose’ are important in the telling of this story.

Taylor’s work underlines the contrast of the human manufactured domain of hard edges and straight lines – containment, with the abundance and freedom of shape, form and colour of the natural world.

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