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Joan Taylor

1912 - 2011

Joan studied at the Clapham Art School and the Royal College of Art.  Joan later worked in commercial art at the National Screen Service and then later as a freelance artist.  In later years, when in her 90s, Joan made good use of her digital camera.

Joan began a new series of mainly abstract work in the late 1960s which continued for thirty years.

These works were based on a concept which has since been described as "the tension between 'natural' and 'contrived' beauty."*

Letter from the Rector of the Royal College, Professor Sir Christopher Frayling.

Joan describing her life and Christian experience recorded in March 2002 when Joan was nearly 90.

*  Description of the pollen sculptures of Wolfgang Laib, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 2000.