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For more than fifty years, Andy Taylor has been drawing and painting the scenery within a day’s drive of his studio in Carbondale, Colorado. Familiar landscapes painted in Taylor’s colorful, gestural, style convey the mood of the artist, seen through his characteristic brushwork and palette. The subjective reactions to reality in the form of shape and color are a signature of Taylor’s work.
Taylor starts his process with pen and ink sketches with marginalia, a process he considers to be the bones of a painting and a form of meditation. His sketches are visual reminders of a scene, but are always left incomplete, leaving room within the process to “invent significance and freedom to make discoveries” as he paints.
Andy’s work has been shown at numerous Western museums, including the Denver Art Museum, the Aspen Art Museum and the Phoenix Art Museum. A veteran of many one-man and group shows since the 1970s, Taylor became a Club Artist at the prestigious Coors Western Art Show’s new gallery at the National Western Club in 2015, 2016, and 2017. He was most recently featured in Southwest Art Magazine’s Andy Taylor: Discovery of a Lifetime.
Artist Andy Taylor shares his passion for painting with Ann Korologos Gallery
"A painting is its own thing," says Andy Taylor. "It exists by itself. It’s its own object. Its origins may come from something that’s outside, but it has to have its own life. So, it has to have its own depth and nuances because you aren’t just looking at a willow bush, well, you’re looking at a willow bush that’s about six steps from a willow bush. I see it, I draw it, maybe photograph it, too. I bring it back, maybe color the drawing, then I put in on the canvas. I don’t want to go out there and try and paint that willow bush sitting down. I want to bring it back and put on the canvas what I remember it as, what I felt like it was. Not try and get the little bits and pieces right."
