Richard Stephen Taylor is a British Painter.
Born in London (1987)
1987年、イギリス、ロンドンに生まれる。
現在、東京にて活動中。
現在、東京にて活動中。
I am drawn to the landscape because of the atmosphere it can create. These moments of fleeting beauty are unattainable. I am pursuing this.
It is impossible to describe the perfect scene or the perfect beauty, this wonderment of nature and beauty is the same thing.
Be it a beautiful scent or the feeling of the calm stillness twilight brings, nature and beauty don't last, but by trying to paint these ambiguous experiences I am capturing them. The passing of time is something you cannot control, time changes your emotion and it can manipulate your perception of beauty. Your memory doesn't recognize time, because it is your own. These memories are precious, I want to reflect this fleeting beauty and cement them onto the canvas.
I fear time will eventually take my memory and the potency of the experience will fade. I paint the fragments of transient beauty that are in danger of being carried away by the harshness of time.
Richard Stephen Taylor
自然が織りなす情景が、わたしを風景画の創作へと掻き立てます。時のうつろいとともにその姿を変えていく自然のなかを、捉え難いはかない美のひとときが、過ぎ去っていく。 わたしはその過ぎ去りゆくものを追いかけます。
完璧な風景を説明することができないように、完璧な美を説明することはできない。これは自然と美に共通する不思議です。素晴らしい芳香や、静かな黄昏の情景が差し出されても、そこにある自然と美は、留まることなく通り過ぎていく。時を止めることはできず、時間は感情を変化させ、美への印象を処理してしまいます。
記憶に刻まれた情景は、こうして流れていく時に逆らい、わたしが心の裡に繋ぎ止めたものです。わたしはそのかりそめの、わたしの記憶に生きる美の幻を、画布に反映し繋ぎ止めたいのです。
いつか記憶が色褪せ、美がわたしのもとを去ることをわたしは恐れます。
現実の無慈悲にさらわれそうな美の欠片を、わたしは描いています。
リチャード・スティーブン・テイラー
翻訳:宮 有葉
Education
2006-2009 University of Gloucestershire BA(Hons) Fine Art Painting and Drawing (First Class)
2004-2006 Richmond Upon Thames college B.T.E.C National Diploma Fine Art (Distinction)
Awards/Scholarships
2014 Artist in Residence, Yamanashi Kofu, Japan
2010 The muse at 269. Portobello Road, London (7 month artist-in-residence Award)
2010 Can Serrat International Art Residency, Barcelona, Spain
2008 Summerfield Scholarship. Award to stay at The British School at Rome, Italy
Selected Exhibitions
2014 AIR-Y The Blue Vision/Kofu, Japan
2011 BayArt Gallery Cardiff, Wales, UK
2010 Artist-in-residence Exhibition. The Muse at 269 Portobello Road, London, UK
2010 9 SHEDS Group Exhibition. Sartorial Contemporary Art. London, UK
2010 Introductory Show, The Muse at 269, Portobello Road, London, UK
2009 262 Degrees, Summerfield Gallery, Cheltenham, UK
2011-2014 Traveling (Australia, New Zeeland, Thailand, Japan)
2006-2009 University of Gloucestershire BA(Hons) Fine Art Painting and Drawing (First Class)
2004-2006 Richmond Upon Thames college B.T.E.C National Diploma Fine Art (Distinction)
Awards/Scholarships
2014 Artist in Residence, Yamanashi Kofu, Japan
2010 The muse at 269. Portobello Road, London (7 month artist-in-residence Award)
2010 Can Serrat International Art Residency, Barcelona, Spain
2008 Summerfield Scholarship. Award to stay at The British School at Rome, Italy
Selected Exhibitions
2014 AIR-Y The Blue Vision/Kofu, Japan
2011 BayArt Gallery Cardiff, Wales, UK
2010 Artist-in-residence Exhibition. The Muse at 269 Portobello Road, London, UK
2010 9 SHEDS Group Exhibition. Sartorial Contemporary Art. London, UK
2010 Introductory Show, The Muse at 269, Portobello Road, London, UK
2009 262 Degrees, Summerfield Gallery, Cheltenham, UK
2011-2014 Traveling (Australia, New Zeeland, Thailand, Japan)