Tig Gallery is delighted to welcome back Scottish Artist Carol Taylor for her second solo exhibition this August. The paintings and assemblages on display are works which Carol produced in direct response to her time spent on Argyll’s Secret Coast in 2016.

Living and working in a wee Hamlet near Biggar, South Lanarkshire, Carol was inspired by the natural beauty of the Argyll landscape with its shifting weather systems and miles of untouched, rugged coastline, it is a landscape directly in contrast with the surrounding hills of her home.  

The body of work on display throughout August consists of a series of large scale panels which explore the fleeting light, rapidly changing weather and textures and colours of the sea. Carols consideration of both the macro and micro detail within her subject matter offers the viewer a fascinating insight into her perception of the landscape, her responses to, and relationship with it.  

Carol, a graduate from the Sculpture school at Edinburgh College of Art, has also created a series of assemblages composed of finds from her explorations of the coastline. These heavily textured and experimental assemblages have been worked into with paint. They nestle somewhere between sculpture and painting, an altar piece offering the viewer an intimate space for contemplation and a meditation in ode to the natural world.

As an introduction to this exhibition gallery directors Robbie Baird and Ros McKenna have selected work from previous stages of Carol career, providing an opportunity for the viewer to appreciate the development of her work and her progressive, experimental, artistic vocabulary. From mid-July onwards the gallery will have an in focus space showcasing three bodies of work prior to Carol’s main exhibition in August

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