Andy Taylor blog
Andy Taylor’s studio blog – an open door into new paintings, works in progress, exhibition news, plus honest tips on choosing, hanging and living with art at home.
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Is art the one thing Ai still can’t do?
Is art the one thing AI still can’t do? A flawless AI image takes about four seconds to make now. Which tells you something important – flawless has stopped being valuable. If a machine can produce it instantly, it was never really the scarce thing. What’s scarce now is proof that a human made the…
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A First Look at Burnt Skies: Ten New Paintings from a Long Hot Summer
A First Look at Burnt Skies: Ten New Paintings from a Long Hot Summer It’s been the kind of UK summer we don’t get often enough to trust it weeks of heat that don’t quite feel like ours. I spent most of it in the studio, and somewhere around the third or fourth canvas I…
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Why I Think Painting Has Quietly Saved Me
Why I Think Painting Has Quietly Saved Me I was halfway through a canvas this week, knife loaded with too much paint as usual, when I found myself thinking about mental health again. Not for the first time. It comes up a lot when I’m working, usually somewhere around the second layer, once the panic…
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The Enduring Appeal of Abstract Art Prints
The Enduring Appeal of Abstract Art Prints Every painting begins in chaos. A blank canvas, a palette knife loaded with colour, no fixed idea of where it will end. What comes out the other side is something I made for myself first, and for a room, a wall, a moment in someone else’s home second.…
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Original Coastal Art for 2026: Why Seascapes Are the Interior Trend Everyone’s Missing
Original Coastal Art for 2026 Every interiors publication is currently telling you the same thing: 2026 is the year of coastal. Warm neutrals, ocean-inspired palettes, organic textures, that particular kind of calm you only really get near water. Scroll through any home decor blog right now and you’ll find the same phrase over and over:…
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How ‘Hope’ was painted
How ‘Hope’ was painted I came to the North Sea late. Not geographically – I’d been to the coast plenty of times. But I came to it properly, with my eyes open, when I started painting. And it changed how I see everything. There’s something about standing in front of water that size that puts…
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Working with Designers – my approach
By Andy Taylor | Art Haus Working with Interior Designers: My approach. If you’re an interior designer or specifier and you’re wondering how choosing original art for a client project might work with me, here’s the honest answer. Buying a painting for yourself is one thing. Choosing one for a client’s living room, a hotel…
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Why the Art on Your Office Walls Is Saying More Than You Think
By Andy Taylor | Art Haus Why the Art on Your Office Walls Is Saying More Than You Think Original art in a workplace does one thing a stock print never can: it tells people someone was paying attention. Everything else in an office communicates something, whether you planned it or not, and the walls…
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Brightwater: The Painting That Changed Its Mind Twice
By Andy Taylor | Art Haus Brightwater: The Painting That Changed Its Mind Twice Some paintings arrive quietly. Brightwater fought me for weeks. I want to show you something I don’t usually show people. Not the finished piece straight off. The whole journey. Because Brightwater didn’t evolve in a straight line. It went somewhere, then…
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What to Look for Before Buying Original Art Online
By Andy Taylor | Art Haus What to Look for Before Buying Original Art Online Buying original art online without seeing it in person can feel like a leap of faith. It doesn’t need to be. Before you buy, check three things: who actually made it, what proof you’ll get that it’s genuine, and whether…
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Buying an Original Painting Direct from an Artist vs. a Marketplace Like Saatchi Art
By Andy Taylor | Art Haus Buying an Original Painting Direct from an Artist vs. a Marketplace Like Saatchi Art If you’re weighing up buying an original painting direct from an artist versus through a marketplace like Saatchi Art, the short answer is this: a marketplace gives you choice and curation across thousands of artists,…
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What Makes a Great Contemporary Seascape Artist?
By Andy Taylor | Art Haus I’ve spent a lot of time at the coast. Not in a romantic, sketchbook-under-the-arm kind of way — more standing at the edge of something vast, watching the light do something you couldn’t quite describe, and feeling the need to go home and try to paint it anyway. Seascape…
