By Brent - Hiatt Studios

Val Paul Taylor ArtIf you sit down and talk with Val Paul Taylor I guarantee you will open a door to a conversation rich with wonderful stories.  I say wonderful carefully and deliberately.  While Val’s spontaneous stories are a tapestry woven with threads of life, emotion, purpose, fantasy, aspiration, and nobility, wonder, humor and surprise—they also create a vivid picture and hang it for you to treasure in the gallery of your mind.His Acrylic paintings, drawings, and letterpress prints are exactly the same; a visual expression of what Val is himself.  Val credits much of his artistic intuition to being a “hybrid.”Val’s Paintings are done in Acrylic on paper mounted on hardboard. His collection of small Letterpress prints is gleaned from his extensive Sketchbooks. Each is printed one at a time on a hand press and are limited editions. Val’s original Paintings and Giclee Limited Edition Fine Art Prints are available in the Guilded Gallery and on line.Val has a personal pantheon of heroes as diverse as the Renaissance painters of Northern Europe, Mickey Mouse’s dad, and modern influences from political cartoonists like Jeff McNealy, to artist W. Heath Robinson, creator of Rube Goldberg-like mechanical contraptions, to animated film pioneer, Winsor McCay, Modernist painter Wassily Kandinsky, Charles Bragg, James Christensen, and the Marx Brothers.Which only means that when you approach Val’s work, in the immortal words of Monte Python, you should probably be prepared for “something completely different.”