Tom Taylor

Tom Taylor. b. 1941. USA. American artist/author. aka The Poet Spiel. As a child, Tom Taylor's temperament was already edgy and precocious. For survival in the farm world he'd fallen heir to, making art allowed him to discover that he could freely create his personal child-view of a complicated world where everyone was bigger and smarter than he. Making art, as work, as play, as sustenance and medication, has rescued him from drowning in the chaos of his troubled and hungry mind. Amidst his 8th...See more

Tom Taylor. b. 1941. USA. American artist/author. aka The Poet Spiel. As a child, Tom Taylor's temperament was already edgy and precocious. For survival in the farm world he'd fallen heir to, making art allowed him to discover that he could freely create his personal child-view of a complicated world where everyone was bigger and smarter than he. Making art, as work, as play, as sustenance and medication, has rescued him from drowning in the chaos of his troubled and hungry mind. Amidst his 8th decade on earth, coping with losses associated with vascular dementia, art is the friend which has withstood the petty and the foolish, the graceful, the garish and the grand of a diverse career in the arts. He has been honored with more than 200 solo and group exhibitions on two continents. His art and writing have been published internationally for decades. His new 2018 book is "REVEALING SELF in Pictures and Words" available at Amazon Books. See less