The FINANCIAL -- An exhibition of work
by the equestrian artist, Jo Taylor, has gone on display at the Victoria
Gallery & Museum.
According to the University of Liverpool, the exhibition, `Warhorse’, features a selection of Jo Taylor’s bold paintings, detailed sketches and prints in a variety of media. The works animate the anatomy of horses and other animals, emphasising their dynamic movement.
Jo Taylor strives to capture the sense of the power and presence of her subject. Her works range in size from tiny working drawings to pieces of monumental scale and she uses different materials, shapes and surfaces to capture not just the form and structure of the animal, but also that of its environment. Jo wants her paintings to recreate the feel the heat, smell the sweat and taste the dust.
Jo is inspired by the eighteenth century Liverpool artist George Stubbs, one of Britain’s great animal painters. She has travelled the world to study the anatomy of horses including the Spanish Corrrida and the plains of Pattagonia. Her eight years as Artist in Residence at the University of Liverpool’s Leahurst campus, observing operations and sometimes post-mortems, contributed to her knowledge and consideration of the equine form.
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