Paynter Creek N.35, 2004, A.J. Taylor
Oil on board, 183.5 x 50 cm
Provenance: Lawsons, Sydney
A.J. Taylor lives and works in the hinterland of Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. Since 2002, he has been a regular exhibitor in solo and group exhibitions in Brisbane and Sydney. Taylor has been a finalist in a number of prizes, including the Wynne Prize, Fleurieu Art Prize, John Glover Art Prize, the John Leslie Art Prize, and the Hawkesbury Art Prize (1).
Like the impressionist artists that have inspired him, Taylor’s aesthetic goal is to test our visual limits, making us complicit in the visual dynamic between experience and form. At the margins, his images often resist resolution, reminding us that, to make sense of our surrounds, we must constantly frame and reframe our view. From a distance, the pictures offer glimpses of recognition and suggest familiar contexts. Up close, however, they fragment into abstracted codes, where painterly blips and dashes both camouflage and signal the precarious nature of vision (2).
Taylor’s popular and highly acclaimed Paynter Creek series sees him visit the Glasshouse Mountains on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, and capture landscapes over the seasons, through various times of day.