"The variation in lights and
weathers provides a spectacular range
of work about this one tree... One of Taylor's
first realizations was that differences
forced him to consider similarities: "I had not
expected to see that,
when placed next to each other, each oak study would
look so
distinct that they appeared to be different trees. They made
me think
about the ways in which there were the same
tree."
Andrew
Gottlieb Terrain.org Blog January 2012 review of Oak: one tree, three
years,
fifty paintings.
Display at Reeman
Dansie Fine Art Auctioneers, Colchester.
" The tree
paintings endeavour to excite and command our attention.
They are in a sensecomparable to advertisig billboards, though
instead
of forcing us to focuson a specific brand of margarine or
discounted
airline fares, they incite us to contemplate the
meaning of nature, the
yearly cycles of growth and decay, the intricacies of the
vegetal and
animal realms, our lost connection with the earth and the
redemptive
powers of modest dappled things. We migh define art as
anything
which pushes our thoughts in important yet neglected
directions."
Alain de
Botton "The Pleasures and Sorrows of
Work." Hamish Hamiltion, 2009.
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