Malcolm Taylor is based in the northwest of England and has exhibited widely throughout the British Isles, including The Royal Academy Summer Show, The Mall Galleries and galleries as far apart as Plymouth and Glasgow.
Malcolm's inspiration is drawn from many sources but particularly from images gathered from his travels around the UK, especially to St. Ives in Cornwall. Many of his paintings are derived from an ongoing exploration of the various moods adopted by the landscape and seeing how these paintings can progress to arrive at a fully abstract image. However, Malcolm has never restricted himself to working in one particular medium and continually finds himself switching between acrylics, traditional oils and both soft and oil pastels depending on what he is trying to achieve.
With his purely abstract paintings he does not have a fixed image in mind when he starts, preferring to let the imagery develop and evolve through the process of painting. Brushes, sticks, fingers and thumbs scrape, score and scratch marks onto the surface. Malcolm continually redraws, rearranges and obliterates passages in a desire to achieve a balance of colour and form. The end result is what is important and he may use collage, mixed media, dripping, scraping, drawing with sticks - anything to achieve a spontaneous and lively painting that is also harmonious in composition, tone and colour.
In 2019, he was elected as a member of The Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) - an art body established in 1823 as an alternative to the Royal Academy. Also in 2019, he was appointed President of Manchester Academy of Fine Arts.