Joan Taylor
Born in 1912, Joan studied at the Clapham Art School and the Royal College of Art. Joan later worked in commercial art at the National Screen Service and then later as a freelance. Joan is still drawing although now 95 years old !
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Joan began a new series of mainly
abstract work in the late 1960s which continued for thirty years.
These works were based a concept which has since been described as "the tension between 'natural' and 'contrived' beauty."* Letter from the Rector of the Royal College, Professor Sir Christopher Frayling. |
* Description of the pollen sculptures of Wolfgang Laib, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 2000.
