Born in 1946, Frank Taylor studied Fine Art at Buckinghamshire, Cardiff and Brighton Colleges of Art (in the UK) and then pursued simultaneous careers as an illustrator and a lecturer for several years.  He held senior posts at Amersham and Salisbury Colleges of Art, but in 1989 he left in order to travel and paint.  Since then, he has painted full time, exhibiting widely both at private galleries and with most of the Royal Societies.  In the 1990s, his work reached a world-wide audience through a series of prints produced by the Art Group.
?When he begins a painting, Frank is unaware of its final form.  The less he knows where the process will lead, the more interesting it becomes.  He is continually experimenting with media, supports and methods of applying colour.  When he is surprised by the outcome, when he has produced something that is new for him ? that, to Frank, is a success.  Those who are familiar with Frank?s work will know that he is a frequent traveler and there is a clear parallel between his philosophy on painting and his continual exploration of the world ? the quest for new experiences, adventures, encounters and surprises.
Taylor feels that his paintings should look natural, as if they should exist, and their execution should appear fluent.  Although in truth, this is rarely the case and each painting is the result of a great deal of struggle and effort, it should appear to have been produced with ease.  In fact, numerous attempts are abandoned, although some unsuccessful images appear as ghosts beneath a new painting which Frank has judged to ?work?.  Although purely representational drawings and paintings by other artists continue to interest him, the representational aspects of his own work have seemed increasingly less important to him.  In the past he has recorded people, places and things with painstaking accuracy but now he likes to invent as he draws.  He prefers the idea of the subjective rather than an objective realism ? this would seem more ?true to life?. ? ? Ian Courcoux and Frank Taylor
Whatever the form his works take, Taylor has achieved an individual style that is warm and engaging without being superficial.  His highly developed use of colour and tone, coupled with admirable compositional balance, elevates his work to a level of considerable sophistication.  This, in many ways, is due to his nature, his aptitude to stand back and interpret an environment, as well as absorb and analyse the work of major twentieth century artists such as Braque, Klee and Miro.
For more than 20 years, Frank?s work has been exhibited at numerous galleries in the UK and his prints have been distributed world wide.  He continues to exhibit in the UK and lives with his wife and son in Surrey.
About Monemvasia:
Inspired by Greek subjects, Monemvasia conveys the robust monumentality of this historical landmark, a massive rock, the Gibraltar of Greece, connected to the east coast of the Peloponnese by a causeway.  Torn from the mainland by a devastating earthquake in 375 AD, in the 6th century, it gave the mainland inhabitants a place of refuge from marauding barbarians.  In medieval times it became the commercial centre of Byzantine Morea, and was a substantial city of which just a fraction remains.  This work was exhibited at Taylor?s exhibition in Gloustershire, Rum and Raki, paintings from Cuba and Greece.