It was an exercise to learn how to see, to understand just one thing in its greatest detail. Stephen Taylor came across the 250-year-old tree while on a walk in Essex, England, six years ago, shortly after the deaths of his mother and close friend a tragic time that brought him back to painting and then to an obsession with realism and color perception. He painted the same oak scores of times over a period of three years, in extremes of weather and light, at all times of day and night. Oak is nature's creed of endurance ...
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It was an exercise to learn how to see, to understand just one thing in its greatest detail. Stephen Taylor came across the 250-year-old tree while on a walk in Essex, England, six years ago, shortly after the deaths of his mother and close friend a tragic time that brought him back to painting and then to an obsession with realism and color perception. He painted the same oak scores of times over a period of three years, in extremes of weather and light, at all times of day and night. Oak is nature's creed of endurance (the tree was standing when Jane Austen was just a baby) and of one man's promise to find beauty in a painful world.
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Good. Book Unpaginated exhibition catalogue, colour pictorial covers with title in white to blue spine. B/w and colour illustrated, published to accompany an exhibition held 9 September to 3 October 2006 at the Vertigo Gallery, London. Minor shelfwear. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
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First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Colour illustrated wraps. pp 42 (unpaginated). Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Exhibition catalogue. Introduction by Alain de Botton. Loosely inserted is a printed flier about the artist. Faint creaing at top corner, very slight rubbing else near fine. No date, c.2006.
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Very Good. Size: 8x0x9; Hardcover in very good condition. Light edge wear to covers. Clean pages free of writing, marks or tears. Binding is secure. We package our items carefully, so you receive them in the advertised condition.
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