Patti Taylor
London, UK
Patti Taylor is a textile artist, printmaker and bookbinder living in London. She began her artistic studies on her retirement after a long career in IT, studying textiles, fine art, printmaking and bookbinding at City Lit and the London Print Studio.
Patti has work in the Printmakers’ Council permanent collection at Scarborough Museum, and the V&A’s textile collection (collaborative artwork: Sewn Antidote 2020), and frequently exhibits in group exhibitions throughout Great Britain. Her work has been shortlisted three times and selected twice for the RA Summer Exhibition.
Emotional attachment is key to Patti’s work. Finding her personal narrative, she searches for exactly what it was that scratched her soul, recording the journey in notebooks to retain the deep research which is integral to her process. Much of her work has been around the landscape and history of Spurn Point; more recently, since her daughter suffered brain injury and blindness following meningitis, Patti has turned to poetry and stitch to help her deal with this emotional trauma.
She works in a range of media and formats: wall hangings, textile and mixed media books, 3D structures, always seeking a correspondence between the subject matter, its underpinning philosophy and the form of the material.
Photographs: by the artist