Alan Taylor Jeffries

Although he has had a lifelong interest in art, Alan Taylor Jeffries only started to paint in 2008 as a self-taught artist working primarily in oils. His work is influenced by traditional Abstract Expressionism and Neo- expressionism. He agrees with the critic that once said that a painting does not have to be “about” anything other than the process of its own creation.

“I never begin with a plan or image in mind. I simply start applying paint to canvas until something interesting happens. Then that “something” suggests the next thing, and the next, and so on, until a kind of internal logic emerges which I then attempt to follow. I never know what the finished product will be, so I would characterize each painting as a visual record of the interplay between randomness and control.”