His heightened landscapes, as art critic Michael Bell has written, focus on natural essences, those dimensions which we perceive with more than our eyes, the realm of truth existing between the lines and shadows of real time and space. For the past 14 years, Taylor has also collaborated on paintings with artist Uriel Dana. He and Uriel have traveled as guests of the U.S. State Department, exhibiting their collaborative work and lecturing to artists in developing countries on how to make a living with their art. Uriel Dana has researched the subject thoroughly. She defines it this way.
Visionary art is an area of surrealism.
It is not meant to be nightmarish, like some of the classical surrealism can be, or drug oriented, like psychedelic art. It is not about unicorns and rainbows. T he following Obituary was written by Eric Ivory Chambers G age Taylor, a well-known artist and resident of Marin for 30 years, died Monday, December 11th, of cancer at the age of 58. Private services were held. B orn in Fort Worth, Texas, Gage received a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Texas in 1965 and a Masters of Fine Arts at Michigan State University in 1967.