Tres Taylor                  Nov 07

Tres Taylor walked away from a 20 year career in bio-chemistry to make art. He says he was "living on blackberries and tobacco" when he met his future wife, Helene. He credits her with his success. 

In the nine years since his decision to commit himself to art, the work is in such high demand that he must paint every day to fulfill his obligations. His exhibit schedule is crowded.

Born in Orlando FL and raised in Birmingham AL, Taylor has lived all over the world. His work shows the multicultural influences. He took a degree from University of Alabama in English Literature in 1980 and thought he should have been a writer. A fateful meeting with the great American outsider artist R. A. Miller brought him to his senses.

"The Mystery"

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“A paintbrush fell from the sky” the day Tres Taylor met R.A. Miller. In 1998 Miller was making history in Georgia as a well respected folk artist and Taylor was a career bio-chemist.

Today Tres Taylor is a well respected artist on the path that was set the day he met R.A. Miller. Mr. Miller passed away in March 2006.  His legacy lives on in the work of the new generation of artists influenced by his art. Much has been said in recent reviews about the influence of “Outsider Art” on the mainstream. Some mainstream artists readily acknowledge the references to primitive and intuitive art, some do not. Tres Taylor owes his artistic life to a self taught visionary and his work carries on the tradition of doing what feels right with what you have at hand.

Some of the imagery in Taylor's work seems to suggest the work of Marc Chagall and Modigliani, and in Japan the reviews of his work noted the references to the great printmaker Munakata. More than the sum of his influences, Taylor's work reveals his genuine spiritual search for the truth in beauty.

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Drumming Up the Spirits

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 Seaside FL      850-231-2133

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