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Janice Tayler

My work is a combination of influences from the history of modern painting and my own history in dance.  Painting uses a similar vocabulary of form as dance: space, repetition of pattern, proportion, variety, rhythm, balance to create movement and develop unity and coherence in a work.

I am interested in  our bodies relationship to content and form.  Muscle memory is the way our body remembers each event that occurs.  Our bodies hold this memory unconsciously until something triggers it.  What is our bodies relationship with content and form.  Why does one person look at a painting and have no response while another may be moved to tears.  It is the mystery of the form and content of a piece. It is a puzzle that keeps me engrossed in the practice of art making and understanding the relevance of painting and abstract art in the contemporary art world.

Wassily Kandinsky believed the artist accumulates experiences within his own inner world; one must state only what is necessary. Within the discipline of dance, as in the act of painting, muscle memory is a powerful recorder of experience.

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