Howard TAYLOR   1918  - 2001

Howard Taylor was born in Victoria, moving to Perth with his family in the early 1930’s. Taylor pursued his interest in art while interned as a POW during WWII and sought to formalise this upon his release to Britain. Following his studies at the Birmingham College of Art 1947 – 1948 Taylor returned to Perth and settled in the Darling Ranges. This was the catalyst for his fascination with the changing nature and abstraction of the bush landscape and forest forms, which would become the unifying factor within Taylor’s work throughout his career. With the urban encroachment in the late 1960’s, he moved to Northcliffe in the heart of the tall-timber karri and jarrah forests of the south- west of WA, where he produced some of his most powerful, impeccably crafted evocations of nature, the result of extensive observation of natural phenomena. In 1990 he created a new body of work that documented the forms of the forest in terms of figurative abstraction.

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