![]() Most of that first year, I made everything on wood. I wasn’t really at the point yet where I thought I could justify going to buy canvas yet. I went over and took pieces from next door, using those as surfaces for my work. They were throwing away all these boards and wood. In the beginning, there was construction going on next door to me, in spite of lockdown. I consider myself fortunate that the early part of the pandemic intersected with a time where I just found myself wanting to paint and draw. ![]() It was almost like going back to college, but I had to be my own tutor. Then, suddenly, approaching lockdown, I found myself back in Los Angeles, and I got Covid early on. When the band works, it’s very emotional and quite exhausting. Every weekend, I would be painting or drawing, but I was really engaged in the band. How did lockdown and Covid affect your practice?īefore lockdown, I was working in England the band was working in London. Six of John Taylor’s “Cover Versions,” or inkjet prints on canvas of mock art magazines, on display at the gallery One Hour Ahead in Aspen, Colorado. I can’t help it because, if you’ve been doing what I have, for as long as I have, you can’t help but think: Is it a product? Very quickly, I got out of the idea that my drawing was just a private experience. ![]() One of the things that happens is that people tend to come to you when you’re successful in one field, and ask, “Hey, would you like to do a clothing line?” or “I want you to be in my film.” You go from being a musician to being all sorts of things. Taking a journey with my band, like I have, is a privilege. The process was very sensual and physical. The first few things I produced I would call smudge art. It was as though I went underwater and haven’t come up since. He uses color to try to define emotional places. I was talking to my therapist one day, and I said, “I need to visualize this and I need colors.” It’s not dissimilar from Carl Jung’s color theory. But initially I returned to drawing as a therapeutic strategy. From the stage design to the branding, logo designs, and merchandising, it’s quite a playground, if you are aesthetically minded. For us, sometimes, the design work that comes along with being in a band is almost as fun as the music-making. Nick Rhodes and I are both really visual. At that moment, I got caught up in the excitement of making music, as opposed to a career in any kind of art. I was at art school in Birmingham when I collided with punk rock and began Duran Duran. John Taylor: I’ve been aggressively painting for three years, but I had always been painting and drawing in my childhood. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.ĪRTnews: Have you been a painter as well as a musician and songwriter this whole time, and Duran Duran fans just never knew this side of you? Taylor sat down with ARTnews via Zoom from his home in Los Angeles to speak about his newfound artistic practice for the first time. Half of Taylor’s show has already sold, according to One Hour Ahead’s founder, the Aspen-based art adviser Sarah Calodney. “Not Broken, Unfinished” is one of two shows currently on view at the gallery, which opened in February. Presented by One Hour Ahead, the exhibition also marks the arrival of a new contemporary space in Aspen’s burgeoning downtown art scene. Sotheby's First Singapore Auction in 15 Years Is a Success, Signaling Southeast Asian Art Market's Strength Business Is Very Good For The Art World's Criminals, Forgers, And Frauds Right Now
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