By Katharine Jacobs
Michael Taylor is a master of many trades. As a painter, illustrator, printmaker, graphic designer and lecturer, his work certainly bears the influence of illustration, his visuals often veering off with narratives all of their own.
Taylor’s most recent solo exhibition, the aptly named ‘The Plot Thickens’ at Worldart in Cape Town, is a case in point. Here, a host of small scale paintings function like a compendium of short stories, brokering flash fiction for the eye. In one painting, a disdainful-looking moose stares out at the viewer from an acid yellow colour field. Save the Drama for your Mama declares his title, the contemptuous beast taking on a personality and a role in some kind of tragicomedy in painting.
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