COASTLINES – Approaches to the Australian Coast
29 August – 4 October, 2009
Extended in the Main Gallery

A group exhibition featuring the diversity on approach to representation of the Australian Coast. The exhibition will also examine aspects and issues on the role of the notion of "coast" in the Australian social, physical and creative pysche. And in a wider context, of the world environment and the concept of human activity induced global warming and its resultant rises in sea level.

Participating Artists:
Allan Baptist, Jim Birkett, Glenda Borchard, Philip Cox, Chan Dissanayaki,
Ken Knight, Robert Simpson, David Voigt

Opening Saturday 29th August 2pm by Richard Morecroft

Forum
On opening day from 2pm - a mini forum with speakers addressing aspects of the Coast. These will include Allan Baptist, Artist, speaking on approaches to the Coast from an artistic and creative viewpoint, Philip Cox AO speaking on the social experience of living, building and preserving the Coast and Richard Morecroft who will open the exhibition.

This is a companion exhibition to Bungendore Wood Works Gallery's 2007 exhibition Landlines - Approaches to Land and Landscape.

Coastlines is a group exhibition about artistic representation of one of the most fragile elements of the Australian landscape - the Coast.

This exhibition, like its 2007 predecessor Landlines, continues to evaluate through the eyes of the participating artists, the magnificence and grandeur of the unique Australian landscape, in this case its coastlines with all its moods, colours, movement and social activity that the majority of Australians can readily identify with.

The artists range from full-time professionals to passionate practitioners all on equivalent footings in terms of vision and dedication to their craft. None could be termed realists, and each has chosen their vehicle for conveying their feelings and passions for the entity broadly termed as the coast.

Some achieve their aims of representation by abstraction, romanticism or mysticism while others employ metaphor and implied symbolism to make their case. All are concerned environmentalists who share common concerns for the earth’s natural welfare: that, is part and parcel of the intelligent and creative mind that resides in every artist.

In these challenging times of environmental degradation and climatic uncertainty, Coastlines – approaches to the Australian Coast brings together artists Allan Baptist, Jim Birkett, Glenda Borchard, Philip Cox, Chan Dissanayake Ken Knight, Robert Simpson and David Voigt, each depicting the notion of ‘Coast’ by way of diversity of medium, technique and subject matter.

Stan d’Argeavel – Exhibition Coordinator

COASTLINES – Approaches to the Australian Coast
29 August – 4 October, 2009
Extended in the Main Gallery

A group exhibition featuring the diversity on approach to representation of the Australian Coast. The exhibition will also examine aspects and issues on the role of the notion of "coast" in the Australian social, physical and creative pysche. And in a wider context, of the world environment and the concept of human activity induced global warming and its resultant rises in sea level.

Participating Artists:
Allan Baptist, Jim Birkett, Glenda Borchard, Philip Cox, Chan Dissanayaki,
Ken Knight, Robert Simpson, David Voigt

Opening Saturday 29th August 2pm by Richard Morecroft

Forum
On opening day from 2pm - a mini forum with speakers addressing aspects of the Coast. These will include Allan Baptist, Artist, speaking on approaches to the Coast from an artistic and creative viewpoint, Philip Cox AO speaking on the social experience of living, building and preserving the Coast and Richard Morecroft who will open the exhibition.

This is a companion exhibition to Bungendore Wood Works Gallery's 2007 exhibition Landlines - Approaches to Land and Landscape.

Coastlines is a group exhibition about artistic representation of one of the most fragile elements of the Australian landscape - the Coast.

This exhibition, like its 2007 predecessor Landlines, continues to evaluate through the eyes of the participating artists, the magnificence and grandeur of the unique Australian landscape, in this case its coastlines with all its moods, colours, movement and social activity that the majority of Australians can readily identify with.

The artists range from full-time professionals to passionate practitioners all on equivalent footings in terms of vision and dedication to their craft. None could be termed realists, and each has chosen their vehicle for conveying their feelings and passions for the entity broadly termed as the coast.

Some achieve their aims of representation by abstraction, romanticism or mysticism while others employ metaphor and implied symbolism to make their case. All are concerned environmentalists who share common concerns for the earth’s natural welfare: that, is part and parcel of the intelligent and creative mind that resides in every artist.

In these challenging times of environmental degradation and climatic uncertainty, Coastlines – approaches to the Australian Coast brings together artists Allan Baptist, Jim Birkett, Glenda Borchard, Philip Cox, Chan Dissanayake Ken Knight, Robert Simpson and David Voigt, each depicting the notion of ‘Coast’ by way of diversity of medium, technique and subject matter.

Stan d’Argeavel – Exhibition Coordinator

COASTLINES – Approaches to the Australian Coast
29 August – 4 October, 2009
Extended in the Main Gallery

A group exhibition featuring the diversity on approach to representation of the Australian Coast. The exhibition will also examine aspects and issues on the role of the notion of "coast" in the Australian social, physical and creative pysche. And in a wider context, of the world environment and the concept of human activity induced global warming and its resultant rises in sea level.

Participating Artists:
Allan Baptist, Jim Birkett, Glenda Borchard, Philip Cox, Chan Dissanayaki,
Ken Knight, Robert Simpson, David Voigt

Opening Saturday 29th August 2pm by Richard Morecroft

Forum
On opening day from 2pm - a mini forum with speakers addressing aspects of the Coast. These will include Allan Baptist, Artist, speaking on approaches to the Coast from an artistic and creative viewpoint, Philip Cox AO speaking on the social experience of living, building and preserving the Coast and Richard Morecroft who will open the exhibition.

This is a companion exhibition to Bungendore Wood Works Gallery's 2007 exhibition Landlines - Approaches to Land and Landscape.

Coastlines is a group exhibition about artistic representation of one of the most fragile elements of the Australian landscape - the Coast.

This exhibition, like its 2007 predecessor Landlines, continues to evaluate through the eyes of the participating artists, the magnificence and grandeur of the unique Australian landscape, in this case its coastlines with all its moods, colours, movement and social activity that the majority of Australians can readily identify with.

The artists range from full-time professionals to passionate practitioners all on equivalent footings in terms of vision and dedication to their craft. None could be termed realists, and each has chosen their vehicle for conveying their feelings and passions for the entity broadly termed as the coast.

Some achieve their aims of representation by abstraction, romanticism or mysticism while others employ metaphor and implied symbolism to make their case. All are concerned environmentalists who share common concerns for the earth’s natural welfare: that, is part and parcel of the intelligent and creative mind that resides in every artist.

In these challenging times of environmental degradation and climatic uncertainty, Coastlines – approaches to the Australian Coast brings together artists Allan Baptist, Jim Birkett, Glenda Borchard, Philip Cox, Chan Dissanayake Ken Knight, Robert Simpson and David Voigt, each depicting the notion of ‘Coast’ by way of diversity of medium, technique and subject matter.

Stan d’Argeavel – Exhibition Coordinator

COASTLINES – Approaches to the Australian Coast
29 August – 4 October, 2009
Extended in the Main Gallery

A group exhibition featuring the diversity on approach to representation of the Australian Coast. The exhibition will also examine aspects and issues on the role of the notion of "coast" in the Australian social, physical and creative pysche. And in a wider context, of the world environment and the concept of human activity induced global warming and its resultant rises in sea level.

Participating Artists:
Allan Baptist, Jim Birkett, Glenda Borchard, Philip Cox, Chan Dissanayaki,
Ken Knight, Robert Simpson, David Voigt

Opening Saturday 29th August 2pm by Richard Morecroft

Forum
On opening day from 2pm - a mini forum with speakers addressing aspects of the Coast. These will include Allan Baptist, Artist, speaking on approaches to the Coast from an artistic and creative viewpoint, Philip Cox AO speaking on the social experience of living, building and preserving the Coast and Richard Morecroft who will open the exhibition.

This is a companion exhibition to Bungendore Wood Works Gallery's 2007 exhibition Landlines - Approaches to Land and Landscape.

Coastlines is a group exhibition about artistic representation of one of the most fragile elements of the Australian landscape - the Coast.

This exhibition, like its 2007 predecessor Landlines, continues to evaluate through the eyes of the participating artists, the magnificence and grandeur of the unique Australian landscape, in this case its coastlines with all its moods, colours, movement and social activity that the majority of Australians can readily identify with.

The artists range from full-time professionals to passionate practitioners all on equivalent footings in terms of vision and dedication to their craft. None could be termed realists, and each has chosen their vehicle for conveying their feelings and passions for the entity broadly termed as the coast.

Some achieve their aims of representation by abstraction, romanticism or mysticism while others employ metaphor and implied symbolism to make their case. All are concerned environmentalists who share common concerns for the earth’s natural welfare: that, is part and parcel of the intelligent and creative mind that resides in every artist.

In these challenging times of environmental degradation and climatic uncertainty, Coastlines – approaches to the Australian Coast brings together artists Allan Baptist, Jim Birkett, Glenda Borchard, Philip Cox, Chan Dissanayake Ken Knight, Robert Simpson and David Voigt, each depicting the notion of ‘Coast’ by way of diversity of medium, technique and subject matter.

Stan d’Argeavel – Exhibition Coordinator

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.

10 October – 1st December, 2009
MICHAEL TAYLOR
VENEER

Leather Mask Sculptures
An exquisite exhibition of sculptured masks

Selected Works now in the Main Gallery

Opened Saturday 10th October at 2.30pm by Meredith Hinchliffe, Journalist and Arts Reviewer

Born in Burlingame, California, Michael Taylor is a graduate of both San José State and San Francisco Universities, where he studied art, sculpture and marine biology. At a graduate level he worked with renowned artists/teachers John Battenburg and Fletcher Benton and while enjoying oil painting and the genre of portraiture, he eventually moved almost entirely into welded sculpture.

After graduating he spent three years sailing around the world in a 17 metre yacht built with his father, returning to the US to continue his career as an artist. A 1976 commission in San Francisco to make a mask proved to be a pivotal point in his life. Between 1984 and 1988 he undertook a study tour focussing on masks. He made masks using native leathers and worked with local artists in Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and South Africa.