"I regard a picture’s title as the viewer’s accepted entry-point to significance – they are allegorical devices to make viewers believe more than is necessarily true about what is illustrated."

Taylor's work is at times labelled illustration and even he utilies the term ‘artist-illustrator’ when discussing his work. This is not a surprising term for him as he believes "what we do as artists is illustrate life, stories, and form".

His recent work was exhibited as a solo exhibition at Art Amsterdam and consisted of, as he describes it "a grouping of medium-large gouache paintings (predominantly) depicting outlandish persons and events in domestic environments: it’s a romp of bright dandies, colourful school-play characters, misinformed fashionistas, gentrified sport coaches, tenacious tree-huggers and embarrassing parents; all with individual flair and tragic experimentalism. These social creatures are bold and bespoke, yet undoubtedly, also bitter and bent."

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Art Amsterdam 2009.