Jeremy Taylor oil painter

Baildon-based Jeremy as well as being an artsist is well known for teaching and demonstrating art around the bradford district.

His career in art was unconventional. “I read philosophy at university, which left me pretty much unqualified for the world of work. I worked on a building site, and recall spending my first wage on a painting by the great Keighley artist Joe Pighills, which I still treasure. Despite having no formal art training, I was encouraged by early successes to paint full time, winning many awards and being the youngest artist elected to membership of the British Watercolour Society.

‘‘I fell into teaching by a happy accident. For many years I worked as a jobbing painter for card and print companies and on commissions. I was making a living.  After being asked to teach a couple of watercolour courses at Ilkley college I began to realise that, for me, teaching was much more fun and much less stressful than painting for a living’’. The courses proved very popular, and soon Jeremy was teaching full time ‘‘I would teach all week then at the weekend I could paint what I liked, without caring if anyone liked it or bought it!’’