About Maggie
Maggie is a visual artist who specialises in painting and hand-made prints. Her painting practice reflects her subjective feelings, and she uses a reduced palette to capture the moment and tensions at play within the cultural landscape of the Humber Estuary, UK. Her practice-led research explores line and space, memory, absence and nostalgia, seeking a quiet stillness, evocative of time and place. She encourages the viewer to reflect on the relationship between the actual place and her interpretation of it, from the urban and industrial to the pastoral.
Maggie captures moments in time, using printmaking techniques and the richness and versatility of oil paint to speak through the images she creates. She explores the way human activity and the environment interact and develop. “Sketches, layers of paint, and prints build up organically into my own interpretation of what I see and feel.” Maggie’s work is inspired by strands of academic research, poetry and walks along the Humber Estuary.
“My practice explores how I can convey themes about Memory and Time and enhance the audience experience. Sometimes I work in monochrome to pare things back and focus on the essential elements of my ideas and depiction of an image. Edges dissolve and ambiguities emerge by what comes out of the shadows, those lingering traces of past lives that inhabit particular places and communities. Using a restricted palette, I investigate messages in line and space, and consider the way human activity and environments interact, develop and echo through time. I examine how the play of light, colour and tonal qualities are important in creating atmosphere and mood. The images I create consider the tensions between line and space, light and dark, old and new, memory and nostalgia, whilst also speaking of today.”
Maggie holds solo exhibitions in the region and online and frequently exhibits her work in Group Shows.
Maggie Taylor has a BA (Hons) Painting Degree (First Class) and an MA Creative Practice Degree (Distinction). Please also follow the link below to her Final Show MA Fine Art “Beyond Words”.
