‘Webstrand’s Gathering Swarm’ Painting

Welcome to my gallery here on Saatchi Art, where you can view some of my Elphen Chronicles artworks for sale, along with those reproduced as Open Prints, available to order, directly from Saatchi Art. My creative soul lies in a deep-seated need to paint; whether at my easel in my Scottish Highlands-based studio, chronicling live events with paints & brushes, or demonstrating techniques. Painting is indeed my passion - my life's work, which encompasses the creation of Masterworks for collectors. My career as a professional artist and author has spanned five decades, creating and producing a wide-ranging body of works and projects – from Fine Artworks for collectors (more than one thousand principal selling works), to sharing my passion for the painting process with a worldwide audience of artists through thirteen published how-to books, a series of painting magazines and an extensive catalogue of online videos. Traditional techniques form the basis of my particular method and process of working, which I maximise and manipulate to achieve the effect of light – the signature feature that is present in every piece. I am particularly partial to oil painting, for there is nothing to surpass the sheer richness of this medium and the process. It is about painting in layers to create depth and using the inherent textures in a brushstroke. In oil painting we have a medium that can be opaque or transparent; thick or thin in its application, where the surface of the painting, being physical, affects the light falling on it. The method of working from dark to light, building from initial dark layers through to the tiniest ticks of pure white highlights is combined with the use of traditional techniques such as glazing and tinting (as per the Old Masters). Enriching and enhancing the surface quality of oil paint is the process I employ extensively to achieve the quality I seek. Yet, something else has also occupied a very special place in my heart, emanating from a childhood incident – now brought to life in ‘Paul Taggart’s Elphen Chronicles’, a multi-media project, embracing the three principal creative strands of art, writing and music. The artistic & written journey of ‘The Elphen Chronicles’ by Paul Taggart “As a child I spent many solitary hours in my Grandmother’s garden. One heavily overgrown area particularly entranced me, for within its depths lay a circular swathe of fine green grass.