Painting of the Week... "The Gift" by Joanne Taylor

The Gift by Joanne Taylor
For purchase within the Europena Union: €2250
For purchase outside the European Union: €2000
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"My earliest memories are of violent thunderstorms, giant insects, blue-headed lizards and steam trains hissing in the night above the rhythmic beating of wooden drums.

I was born in the middle of Africa, then northern Rhodesia, during "suicide month" in 1952. I grew up steeped in the overpowering vitality of the jungle, free as a monkey and virtually untouched by the physical and psychological worlds beyond the village limits.

My art, like any creative activity, is simply a reflection of process. I watch, bemused, as this mind plays its games. Essentially I see life as a joyful cosmic joke in which we unwittingly create our own limiting rules. Painting is for me a way of expressing a smile, a reminder not to take my 'self' too seriously."