Michael Taylor

https://www.instagram.com/michaeltaylorstudio/

Michael Taylor, born in Johannesburg, is a South African artist living and working in Cape Town. Taylor produces works in painting, drawing, printmaking and ceramics. 

Michael has a story, make that a few to tell and, through his work at WE, especially in the monotype technique, his characters and settings materialize in humourous acts, satirized scenarios, and of course, at the beach – a sucker for a ‘Tropiitone’ sunset is Michael. To comparatively sketch it out, he arrives with a suitcase of stuff (well, not figuratively) and ready and open to the element of chance. Taylor has the illustrator in him, and that means the suitcase is tightly packed, and as he decides to unpack, so too does a composition. It helps that the nature of Michael’s work has much to do with editing/selecting and layering – in terms of making monotypes, he is able to think of the final image as a succession of colour planes, negative areas waiting to be filled and at least the possibilities of adding to or taking away from existing flat planes. He is a consummate professional in his sensibility and approach, well suited to collaboration in the print studio and, has developed from initial projects. Michael Taylor knows what will work and what will ‘fail’ due to his being comfortable with the medium as he says, “let the medium do what it wants to do.”

Text by Sara-Aimee Verity

 

 

Price R38000 (excl. VAT)

 

Framed Price R30950 (excl. VAT) | Frame detail – Bamboo

 

Michael Taylor
Penguin
2016
Monotype on Zerkall Litho 270gsm
Unique Print
Paper dimension: 75,1 x 53,8 cm
Image dimension: 49,5 x 40 cm

Price R20150 (excl. VAT)

 

Michael Taylor
Pudding jungle
2016
Monotype on Zerkall Litho 270gsm
Unique Print
Paper dimension: 53,8 x 37,5 cm
Image dimension: 28,8 x 22,3 cm

Framed Price R12050 (excl. VAT) | Frame detail – Ash

 

Michael Taylor
Lovers
2016
Monotype on Zerkall Litho 270gsm
Unique Print
Paper dimension: 53,6 x 37,5 cm
Image dimension: 28,8 x 22,2 cm

Framed Price R12050 (excl. VAT) | Frame detail – Ash

 

Michael Taylor
Entering heaven
2016
Monotype on Zerkall Litho 270gsm
Unique Print
Paper dimension: 53,9 x 37,5 cm
Image dimension: 29 x 22,4 cm

Framed Price R12050 (excl. VAT) | Frame detail – Ash

 

Michael Taylor
Beach cowboy
2016
Monotype on Zerkall Litho 270gsm
Unique Print
Paper dimension: 53,8 x 37,2 cm
Image dimension: 28,9 x 22,4 cm

Framed Price R12050 (excl. VAT) | Frame detail – Ash

 

Price R6760 (excl. VAT)

 

Michael Taylor
Birds of a feather #10
2011
Oil-based monotype and ink wash drawing on moleskine on Zerkall Intaglio 250gsm
Unique Print
Paper & image dimension: 38 x 53,5 cm

Framed Price R10650 (excl. VAT) | Frame detail – Alaskan Cedar

 

Michael Taylor
Birds of a feather #13
2011
Oil-based monotype and ink wash drawing on moleskine on Zerkall Intaglio 250gsm
Unique print
Paper & image dimension: 38 x 53,5 cm

Price R9685 (excl. VAT)

 

Michael Taylor
Birds of a feather #14
2011
Oil-based monotype and ink wash drawing on moleskine on Zerkall Intaglio 250gsm
Unique print
Paper & image dimension: 38 x 53,5 cm

Price R9685 (excl. VAT)

 

Framed Price R16550 (excl. VAT) | Frame detail – Pink Beech

 

Price R15210 (excl. VAT)

 

Price R11050 (excl. VAT)

 

Framed Price R10650 (excl. VAT) | Frame detail – Alaskan Cedar

 

Price R7410 (excl. VAT)

 

Price R7410 (excl. VAT)

 

Price R7410 (excl. VAT)

 

Price R7020 (excl. VAT)

 

Price R7020 (excl. VAT)

 

Price R3250 (excl. VAT)

 

Price R3250 (excl. VAT)

 

Price R6760 (excl. VAT)

 

Michael Taylor
Insomniac Rendezvous
2009
Aquatint mezzotint on Zerkall Intaglio 250gsm
Edition of 20
Paper dimension: 53,5 x 43,5 cm
Image dimension: 39,3 x 29,2 cm

ONLY 1 LEFT

Price R6500 (excl. VAT)

 

 

 

Framed Price R6940 (excl. VAT) | Frame detail – Beech

 

Michael Taylor
The Gifted
Picture book
Edition of 150
Screenprinting on Enigma Ivory 160gsm and cover Enigma Ivory 350gsm
Book dimensions when closed 15 x 12 cm

Price R400 (excl. VAT)