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Complexities & Meaning
Penny Taylor tells of her fascination with photography...
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 photo by Richard Freeman ©2000
My mother, on the other hand, gave me music in every sense of the word, and the marriage of all of those qualities have played a significant role in what appears in my portfolio.
"STAIRS IN FLIGHT" © Penny Taylor
Throughout my life, I've led a mostly peripatetic lifestyle, cultivating an early childhood filled with curiosity and self-imposed independence, and therefore, capturing images to record those moments for posterity has been the outcome. Over the years, I've realized that there are details everywhere waiting to be re-discovered - not only in front of, but above and below all of us, and by using monochromatic film, with all of its subtleties and nuances, my camera and I have tried to immortalize, as a partnership, the everyday mise en scène as emotional art for the sake of art. Or perhaps, art imitating life.
"CAST" © Penny Taylor
Intricate wrought-iron work and the interplay of available light continue to fascinate me. Shadows and the distortions they form can often be hit-and-miss, but by the same token, that uncertainty is what keeps me coming back. Additionally, a lot of what I shoot has to do with direction as well as perspective. Whatever is usual, I like to tweak. If a subject has been shot from the top down, I'll shoot it from the bottom up. There can be a completely different perspective on the world when flexibility is brought into the equation.
"CHIAROSCURO" © Penny Taylor
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I know I came by this photography thing honestly.
My father was a talented weekend artist, who painted an enormous number of canvases during my formative years, and our home was full of them. His love of solitude was another quality I inherited, as well as wanderlust and a desire to capture distant places on film.
"LOST IN THOUGHT" © Penny Taylor
Throughout my professional photographic career, I have looked upon the complexities, shapes, patterns and symmetry in both urban and rural settings as thought-provoking, meaningful images. What others may consider banal or mundane, I see with different eyes. With an almost obsessive pre-occupation with detail, I've found much inspiration in the little picture as well as the big, and the resulting unpredictability of stumbling onto treasures, hidden or otherwise.
"CANOPY" © Penny Taylor
In reality, graphics and simplicity play a large part in what I look for through the lens, and invariably, a love of humour often infuses the end result.
"SEARCH PARTY" © Penny Taylor
Eve Arnold, the first female member of Magnum, and a contemporary of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa, coined the meaning of photography as a combination of design and emotion. Emotion is also a key factor in the appeal of my own photographic subjects, primarily as an extension of my own personality. To anyone who knows me, that may be the understatement of the year! Ultimately, to create the unspoken marriage of mood in real time with mood on film is a quality I strive for.
Penny Taylor
Toronto, Canada 2003
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In 1994, Ms. Taylor mounted her first solo exhibition at Toronto's Upper
Canada Brewery Alternative Gallery as part of their continued support of new artists, and she has hung solo exhibitions in Here and Now Gallery, Skylight Gallery, The Carrot Gallery, and Peterson Fine Art Gallery (as part of Contact 2000 - the Annual Festival of Photography) in Toronto since then.
Ms. Taylor has been represented by Tatar|Alexander PhotoGallery and Archive Gallery in Toronto, and Aperture Gallery in the U.K.
Currently, many of her images are represented by Valenart & Associates in Toronto, Struik Images of South Africa, Right Image of Montana, and ibid inc., of Chicago. Her work was the focus of a nationally aired television spot for Quaker Hot Cereal in1999/2000, and continues to be used in advertising campaigns worldwide.
One of her images is featured on the cover of The Hangdog's latest CD, "Beware of Dog", and Christopher Turner's "The Collaborative Viola".
Her work can also be found in many corporate and private collections. In June 2002, one of her pieces was sold at Michael Stadlander's auction for Canadian Artistic Youth at his renowned Eigensinn Farm, and another piece was shown in August 2002 at Bernardo Marigmen's gallery in Chicago, Illinois. In November 2002, two of her images were auctioned and sold on behalf of the Bereaved Families of Ontario. Most recently, in May 2003, one of her images was auctioned and sold on behalf of the Canadian National Advertising Benevolent Society.
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| Images from the TRADITIONAL FILM Gallery. | 
"Multitude"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"One"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Elliptical"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Ewers"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Manor"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Masks"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Outre"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Pair"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Shade"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Sprachman's Horses"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Three"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Algonquin"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"The Gallops"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Hack"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Paddock"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Queen's Park #1"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"To Market"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Encounter"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Bond"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Deco"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Widow's Peak"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Solitaire"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Max's Place"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Portal"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Castle Frank"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Cornerstone"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Curvature"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Escape Route"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Juxtaposition"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Medina"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Passage"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Queen's Quay"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"San Marco"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Secret Garden"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Altitude 5000 Feet"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Balustrade"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Dichotomy"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Patriot's Leaf"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Tracks"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Cornered"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Ripple"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Linear"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Angular"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Busy"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Constructive Abstract"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Guardians"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Empty"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Julliard"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Giantess"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Pastoral"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Seawall"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Drydock"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Harbour #1"
© P.Taylor, Canada
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"Harbour #2"
© P.Taylor, Canada
| | Images from the PANORAMA Gallery. | |
"Dawn"
© P. Taylor, Canada
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"Boardwalk"
© P. Taylor, Canada
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"Mt Pleasant"
© P. Taylor, Canada
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"Port Perry"
© P. Taylor, Canada
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"Sayers Lane"
© P. Taylor, Canada
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"Bridgespan"
© P. Taylor, Canada
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"Belsize"
© P. Taylor, Canada
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"Queens Park #2"
© P. Taylor, Canada
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"Sunday Morning"
© P. Taylor, Canada
| | Images from the LIMITED EDITION Gallery. | |
"Cast - England"
© P. Taylor, Canada
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"Spadina"
© P. Taylor, Canada
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"Saturday Morning"
© P. Taylor, Canada
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"Canopy"
© P. Taylor, Canada
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"Vista - England"
© P. Taylor, Canada
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"Lost in Thought - Morocco"
© P. Taylor, Canada
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"Search Party"
© P. Taylor, Canada
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"Wary - Morocco"
© P. Taylor, Canada
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"In Situ - USA"
© P. Taylor, Canada
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"Respite"
© P. Taylor, Canada
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"Entre-Nous"
© P. Taylor, Canada
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"Chiaroscuro"
© P. Taylor, Canada
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"Apex"
© P. Taylor, Canada
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"Bird's Eye"
© P. Taylor, Canada
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"Dedication"
© P. Taylor, Canada
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"Stairs in Flight"
© P. Taylor, Canada
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"Nexus"
© P. Taylor, Canada
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"Convexity"
© P. Taylor, Canada
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"Frozen - USA"
© P. Taylor, Canada
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"Kasbah - Morocco"
© P. Taylor, Canada
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| Images from the DIGITAL Gallery. | |
| Images from the DIGITAL ART Gallery. | |
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