GUY TAPLIN

Guy’s work is on display and available for purchase at David Messum Fine Art from 5th - 28th February 2025.

“Guy’s great skill is that his work doesn’t tell you everything. The confidence of his modelling, the elegance of line, the capture of movement goes so far and the lets you do the rest. […] If an artist can with so little fuss and such great assurance transport me and my home into the sky or onto the sea I wouldn’t call him a primitive, I’d call him a magician.”

— Michael Palin

“And that, I thought then, was how Guy Taplin’s work seemed to me - as if it had been cast up by the waves, fully fledged. I imagined him seeing birds in the bits of wood he collected, releasing them from the rigid planks in which they were trapped.”

— Richard Mabey

“He has an extraordinary eye for interpreting the animal world and we need people of his talent most urgently.”

— Gerald Durrell