Adrian Taunton EAGMA
Born in 1939, Adrian Taunton is the latest in a family of painters going back to William Taunton (1808-1898). Educated at Norwich School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, his early career with Unilever took him to West Africa and London before becoming MD of the poster company Mills and Allen. In the mid eighties he returned to his native Norfolk where he embarked on a new career as a painter.
For a number of years he exhibited widely in galleries across the country and his work was shown in numerous one-man and mixed exhibitions in London, East Anglia and elsewhere, including the RI and RSMA at the Mall Galleries, the London Fine Art Fair and the 20th Century Art Fair. Twice his entries reached the finalists exhibition of the prestigious Sunday Times Watercolour Competition. Overseas collectors range from Bombay to Virginia, including the Ralph Lauren Corporation in New York.
Steeped from childhood in the traditions of the great East Anglian painters of the past, he cites the late Edward Seago, a friend and mentor to his father, as one of the greatest influences on his artistic awareness. Working in both watercolour and oil, his paintings are evidence of his deep appreciation of the atmosphere of the Anglian scenery with the interplay of light and water featuring strongly in his work at home and abroad.
