about Martin Taylor
Martin Taylor is a relative newcomer to Art, having spent more than the first thirty years if his working life as an Engineering Manager.
Martin’s transfer to the creative side of life came about through chance. Prompted by a week at the Portland Sculpture Trust in 1999 Martin started to create at home, mainly sculpture and drawing.
Almost immediately an opportunity arose that enabled Martin to become 100% creative, he signed on for a Art’s Foundation Course at Rugby College of Further Education.
This was followed by a BA Fine Art an University College Northampton between 2002 and 2005 during which time he not only had work in Local Group shows but curated a solo show for himself and a Group show for “Friends”.
Martin’s work reveals his engineering background in its methodical construction and clear process derivation and whilst he leans towards metaphor and abstraction his work is obviously subjective.
Whilst ever evolving the work is produced with a relative simplicity, rules are set down restricting or stipulating certain parameters. Variation then occurs during the process but within the confines of the predetermined vision. This initially implies that the work is limited and this is true for a specific piece. Wider variation is achieved by varying the rules of future pieces, generally prompted by the creative stimulus aroused by the confrontation with the self imposed limits. This therefore is a continuous creative process that links all the work together, and allows the viewer space to work out overall where Martin is coming from.
It is important to Martin that the works are not too ‘obvious’ and that there is adequate space created within the work for the viewer to incorporate his or her own history. This is important and whilst sometimes a title may lead the viewer on the path that Martin has taken, enough space exists for all the viewers to determine their own view.