The Forest Dream, 2024

Diana Taylor (b. 1977, UK) lives and works in London. She is a painter whose practice explores materiality, memory, and time through layered processes. Taylor completed a practice-based PhD with the William Morris Gallery through Sheffield Hallam University in 2023 and holds an MFA in Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art, London (2010).

Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Bobinska Brownlee, London; William Morris Gallery, London; and Artseen Contemporary, Nicosia, among others, and in group exhibitions across the UK and Europe. In 2025, she was a recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon short-term Fellowship at the Huntington, California.

What draws us to The Forest Dream is its quiet sense of immersion. Through the interplay of oil, acrylic, and silkscreen, Diana Taylor constructs a space that feels both physical and psychological, where layers accumulate like memories rather than images. The work resists direct representation, inviting the viewer to drift through its textures and rhythms. It is a painting that unfolds slowly, rewarding contemplation and allowing the forest to be experienced as a feeling—intuitive, enveloping, and deeply human.

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