Jon Taylor's "Industry Simplified"

Current sculptures, paintings in acrylic and sumi as well has some well crafted smaller linocuts will be part of Jon Taylor's art at Johnston Architects, Fremont Art Walk, Opening Friday August 5, 2016, 6-8 pm, 100 NE Northlake Way #200 Seattle 98105.

Working in Olympia, WA during the week and doing linocuts and sumi paintings in the evenings, working on art in Seattle studios during the weekends making sculpture out of porcelain, wood, glazes, epoxies, welded bases. Most pieces are depictions of industry or symbolic industrial images and icons.

You can also see Jon Taylor's marine based art simultaneously showing at Captain's Gallery in Ballard through August. See previous post.

Jon Taylor at Captain's Supplies, Ballard Art Walks 7-9-2016 and 8-13-2016, 6 - 9 pm

I was asked to participate as the artist exhibiting works in Captain’s Supplies upstairs gallery in their relatively new Ballard home on Ballard Way NW for July and August 2016.  Ballard retailers that have a gallery space open up their shops to people interested in art on the Second Saturday evening of every month. When asked to show it was a bit of a short notice but several of my prints had been produced in the last year and some had a strong Puget Sound, Seattle or nautical theme so they could fill up a lot of the space in conjunction with paintings and sculptural pieces. Several pieces that had not been seen before just needed finishing touches and I sketched out some smallish sculptures I could render in PLA 3D printed plastic adding some colored resin for water as well as pieces that duplicated the scale in wood with some steel tops as supports.

The gallery space of the upper retail area holds older sextons and compasses as well as new large telescopes for sale and there is plenty of wall space for the art. The space has a great volume and the show displays nicely.  With a dozen or so sculptural pieces there are several paintings and many prints. If you are an art buyer, collector, artist, or a printmaker or printmaking teacher or student, this would be a wonderful show to view for many linoleum carving and plate assembling and overprinting techniques, there is even some sewn work where impressions are sewn onto printmaking paper base layers. Come enjoy the paintings and sculpture as well.

If you want to see or talk to the artist, Jon Taylor will be available at the Opening Reception, Thursday July 7th from 5pm to 7pm and at the Second Saturday Ballard Art Walks for July 9th and August 13th from 6pm to 9pm.

If you can’t make it any of those times feel free to visit the gallery during Captain’s business hours from July 8 to August 28, 2016.

Captain's Supplies     1120 Ballard Way NW, Seattle, WA 98107

Jon Taylor shows at Captain's Gallery, Ballard

Jon Taylor will have paintings, prints and sculpture in July and August at Captain's Supply in the upstairs gallery. Themes are navigation and marine.

See the artist at the Opening Reception Thursday, July 7, 2016 from 5 to 7pm

Seattle Sampling December 4,5, and 6, 2015

Jon Taylor and Iskra Johnson are joining Ruth Hesse & Steve MacFarlane Studios for this year's Seattle Sampling December 4,5 and 6.  www.seattlesampling.com

We are all members of an decade old artists critique group called Painters Under Pressure.

Jon will have lino prints, some paintings and several mini and mid size wood and metal sculptures.

This event will be here:

4000 Aurora Ave N #111 & #118
Seattle, WA 98103
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Info: (206) 755-8458
ADA accessible: Yes
Additional hrs:  None

New Linocuts available at the TAH online shop!

Taylor Art House is very excited about the recent linocut carving and printing of seven new series of prints with more cuts and variations coming soon. The success of recent mini sculpture sales and anticipation of linocuts arriving should make these unique and affordable pieces popular. A "pop-up" printmaking studio was set up in our heated dining and living room to push this group out for sales.  Great care was taken to make sure correct inks, paper and press leverage all acted together for a series of fresh, simple, direct and archival prints inspired by themes of home, work, place, water, flight and industry.

We are excited about adding color in some of the new series, but wanted to keep this set of prints simple and affordable.

Here are some of the linocuts (and other artworks) for sale at our online shop:

New Mini Sculptures being sold on the TAH online shop!

New Mini Sculptures are being sold on the Taylor Art House online shop. This will be a start at on-line sales that have had a great initial soft start and interest.

The items are a combination of steel and up-cycled Douglas Fir lumber that is anywhere from 60 to 120 years old gathered from various places and remodeling jobs around Seattle.  The steel is usually purchased from Pacific Industrial Supply and is pretty basic carbon steel.  Several buyers that have not been able to be at openings or other sales venues have asked to have smaller items they can keep for themselves or gift to others before they mature into larger purchases,. Some buyers have a bigger piece and want to have more of a keepsake  for them or loved ones. Hopefully pieces that aren't in other retail areas or shows will show up on this retail site as a temporary store before this website is reconstructed next year.  There will be other posts to describe some of the processes that go into these mini-pieces.

Here are some of the Mini-Sculptures we have for sale:

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Early anvil cuts on a piece of railroad rail

When I went to see my friend Steve Hussey at Burning Specialties in Georgetown last month and showed him some silver pencil marks I made on a 17" long piece of rail he said he hadn't ever seen anything that heavy or with that big of a section and he has worked with a lot of rail in his fabrication business.  Years ago taking a welding class and a weekend shop tour conducted by Mark Rudis at Pratt Fine Arts I met Steve.  A couple of years later after doing several iterations in different materials of my simple Monopoly-like houses I stopped by Steve's shop to ask him if he could cut some houses for me out of 3 1/2" thick steel plate. Steve said no problem and we made two of them after I brought him a solid Douglas Fir full scale model to take measurements from (He still proudly shows it to customers).  I have visited Steve every couple of years since and have watched him continually improve his oxygen/propane ganged CNC cutting machines.  In about 45 minutes Steve adjusted his machine and cut the rail to shape.  The top of the rail behind the horn will be milled to make it flat and a square hole, often called a Hardy hole, that will penetrate the torch cut square hole in the web and another round hole to bend steel or take other accessories will be added.  Finally the horn will be shaped in an oval like cone to take hot metal and bend it into curved shapes.  Possibly will weld a heavy steel plate at the bottom to give it more mass. The round hole with a notch is to take a chain to fasten it to an oak stump or a stand made up of laminated 2x  vertical lumber. More later as the project progresses.  

Ballard Art Walk at Solo Ballard Lofts 8-9-2014

  Come see the exciting Ballard Lofts at Solo, and see some of the following art pieces, Saturday, August 9, 2014 from 6-9 pm at the Solo Lofts Sales Office 2041 NW 57^th St., Loft 103, 98107.  See the Solo Blog entry here.

This painting called Modifiers was the inspiration for several stainless steel and wood sculptures prepared for an six month grouping at the West Seattle Gatewood B and B at the beginning of 2014.

The subjects are publicly viewed and visited large utility structures imagined to purify air. They are made like nuclear cooling towers, but have some suspended lozenge that changes the molecular structure of the atmosphere for the better.

The painting is on a custom wood panel with an acrylic gesso base.  The lines are drawn and drafted with graphite and painted over many times with acrylic paint and gesso, then finished with a variety of sheens of gels.

The sculptures depict industrial - public - probably rural in nature and could be anything, but all have peaceful scientific roots,  with interpretive centers and docents to take groups through the facilities to have the public know where and how their tax dollars are being spent for peaceful, scientific and community enhancement.  Any of the pieces conjure a site and specific action and/or industry and often gather energy form the sky, ground or cosmic rays and refocus or disperse the energy.

Cedar Duo

See the Wood page for more sculptures and comments here.

Hot Glass in Steel Vessels

  These started out as an idea that the glass and steel would be annealed together and be as one, but the experts at Seattle Glassblowing said it would not work because of the incompatibility of thermal expansions of the materials. We used the steel structures as base forms and then either poured thick glass or blew shapes that could be removed.  These glass pieces were then annealed and will be joined into the steel structures.

A couple of these pieces will be on display with a couple of framed photographs of the 8x10 film factory sculpture for the

INSIDE - Art by Architects show from July 8 - August 22, 2014 at the:

AIA  Gallery AIA Seattle 1911 First Avenue Seattle, WA 98101 Tu-Fr 10-5

There will also be an opening for the show Friday July 11, 2014 from 5-7pm

http://www.aiaseattle.org/node/8909

This first image is showing final piece to be welded held with steel fingers:

This image shows the three welded vessels:

After molten glass is loaded into the steel vessel:

Here is the punti being formed to pick up glass out of vessel:

Punti pulling glass out of vessel:

Glass set into vessels, almost done - glass will be adhered to vessels, some vessels may be partially painted:

Gatewood B an B Second Thursday continues

Jon Taylor at Gatewood B and B West Seattle Second Thursday Art Walk 

May 8, and June 12, 2014

Come by this Thursday between 6 and 9pm to see Jon Taylor’s paintings, acrylic resin, welded steel and wood/stainless steel sculptures.

Sara Barton has put the extra effort into the Gatewood B and B in West Seattle to invite several artists to hang their work for sale as well as graciously opening up the second and third floors to display the artwork prominently in the sky lit upper lobby and some of the rooms.

There is always a nice spread of food and a welcoming by Sarah to show off the B and B and the art on Second Thursdays.

If you want to see the art on other days and and you want me to walk you through, please call me at 206-612-9863 to set up an appointment,  or you can call Sarah at 206-938-3482 to drop by at the  Gatewood B and B to view the the art next time you are in West Seattle.

Come see this great family run B and B and enjoy the art this Second Thursday May 8, 2014 and June 12, 2014 from 6-9pm.

The Gatewood Bed and Breakfast

7446 Gatewood Rd SW

Seattle, Washington, 98136, United States

stay@gatewoodwestseattle.com

206-938-3482