George Hayford-Taylor, Illustrator

DEEP SNAIL-LAUNCH PARTY-Tree roots of pavlova!

2012-01-19T03:34:00.001Z

Tree roots of pavlova!
Originally uploaded by George Hayford-Taylor

The Tale of The Snail:

A little while ago, deep within the deepest depths of the amazonian rainforest, in parts little explored even by tribesmen existed a small settlement of rare snail. All lived in harmony and peace going about their daily activities, tending to their wares and nurturing the baby snizzles. Our hero to be (a young, intelligent creature) was out and about one day as he always was. A keen interest in exploration of the forest drew him further and further away from the settlement and as time progressed he decided that his adventures on this day should lead him to the forbidden tree of foresight and wisdom which was only to be approached by the shamanic snail of the group.

Feeling fool-hardy and high on life, after a little look around to check no one was watching, he threw caution to the wind and began to feast on the fabled bark, in blatent disregard of the tradition of his elders. Oh how he ate, ate like he'd never eaten before, in a veritable frenzy of saliva and woodchippings. After he was through with the illicit meal, he stopped to smoke a pipe and have a little lie-down under some sort of mushroom. Pretty soon his vision began to get a little blurry and certain colours became much more prominent and his shell actually started to vibrate at quite a high frequency. 'Hang on a minute, this isn't normal' he thought to himself as non-existent creatures began to enter his peripheral vision and various plants around him began to pulsate in time to his own heartbeat. He barely had time to regret feasting on the Tree of Pavlova before he found himself casually cruising through hyperspace at a rate beyond his control. Time was non-existent here and after an un-known period, maybe days or weeks, he blinked and was in the middle of a large plaza, surround by tall buildings of concrete and glass. This was Alexanderplatz and he was in Berlin.

A completely alien environment rendered our hero confused and disorientated. Bewildered by the monumental structures, blinding city lights and mechanical sounds of passing trams and automobiles he slowly slimed his way in a circle around the platz for hours. After about four hours of sliming a curious sound caught his ears. Warm frequencies and repetitive beats made his eyestalks tingle and filled him with fresh energy and determination. He followed the positive vibrations to the outskirts of the plaza and down a non-descript stairway, he was filled with uncertainty and excitement about what lay beyond.

The sights and sounds that greeted him far exceeded his wildest expectation, everywhere he looked ecstatic molluscs were shaking and grooving under an array beautiful multicoloured decor, eyes closed, lost in a myriad of lights, movement and meditation. Music wafted through the air and hours of sliming passed, where not a bad sound was heard or sad face pulled. This was atmospheric perfection. A place where all could reach the same state of elation under one roof something like the shamanic gatherings of the small amazonian tribe but with crisp smooth sounds carrying the molluscs on their journey. Smiling to himself our snail realized that this is what the Tree of Pavlova had intended for him. By the end of the party he had accumulated some knowledge of the music from the friendly German snails and how he was to again find something of this beauty.

The next month or so was a blur of parties. He now wore fine urban designs on his amazonian shell (which seemed to glow a little more after each night) and wasted little time outside nightclub and hot tub. Friend to many DJ's and a choice selection of powerful players in the underground music industry, he was at the top of his game. One morning he woke after a series of microdreams in his sequence of snoozes and realised that he must spread his knowledge to the people of Europe. His adventure took him to many capitals, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Budapest, Kiev (where he learned to bake pastries), Ljubljana (where he learned the art of cheese rolling) and Moscow to name but a few. Presenting impeccable parties to countless numbers of snails and leaving waves of mystery and musical consciousness in his wake our hero was indeed a noble creature. London was next. He arrived amidst the warm months and proceeded with his usual promotional activities. On the last Saturday of July there was to be held a monumental event running across two days showcasing the finest European talent including several of his DJ friends from Berlin. The doors opened and a flood of shelled party goers descended upon the 4 dance floors eager to have a piece of the action. The night was a huge success and he was invited to one of the English DJ's afterparties. The house that they were to return to was in Clapham Junction an area unknown to the snail but even though the DJ said it was a bit of a journey to get to he accepted.

The final snail slimed tiredly out of the club and the crew began to remove hangings and projectors. He stuck around to oversee that everything was going to plan then left for the station with his new friends. All in high spirits still energised from the music they had not a care in the world but on the way to the station great misfortune struck. They were accosted by an unruly group of slugs who mugged them for their wares and slimed off at top speed to be lost from sight just as quickly as they appeared. Luckily one of the snails managed to escape with his debit card and bought tickets for all the others. They boarded the train and after a few stops there was no one left in the carriage. Just before the group reached Clapham Junction, or heroes bladder demanded he visit the toilet. The train stopped and he tried to open the door with no success. He heard his friends leaving the train but in their inebriated state had forgotten that he was in the toilet!

To his horror the train began moving and he was forced to endure the smelly imprisonment for the entirety of the journey. When the train finally stopped for good a helpful train cleaner pried the door open for him and with great relief he slimed off the train to find himself in the city of Brighton. As there were no more trains back to London he decided to slime around until daybreak after contacting his friends to tell them of his predicament. The white coloured buildings and hilly streets sat on the background of a deep green ocean and a fresh saltiness breezed against his feelers. What is this place!? He thought to himself. The day rolled on and the snail became more and more captivated by the city and so decided to stay for a few days. He headed to the bank that afternoon with his passport (which he had sneakily tucked into his shell when the slugs had assaulted him and his friends ) and managed to withdraw some money for a reasonably comfy hotel room with a sea view. The Brighton days turned to weeks and nearly a month went past.

Suffice to say our hero had found himself once again in a place which felt like home but this time required his precious skill and incredible talent. The adventure that the Tree of Pavlova had laid out for the snail had brought him to the place where he felt aligned with the essence of the milk of the great dachshund and would throw some parties that the city would never forget.

NO SLUGS.

2012-01-07T19:41:00.004Z

Utopian Risograph print

2012-01-06T18:53:00.009Z

Thanks to Elliot Denny who keeps a steady hand on the helm of

http://www.victorypress.co.uk/

for this 4 colour reproduction of a CMYK print

I made this collage about 12 months ago for a CD project called: Order Of The Forest. It was the poster inside and it's really sick having it as a riso, it's more unique than a digital print.

UPDATE: now available

http://chronicshop.bigcartel.com/

(detail)

The Beatles Yellow Submarine

2012-01-06T03:48:00.001Z

ALL TOGETHER NOW

target

2012-01-04T01:59:00.002Z

target
Originally uploaded by George Hayford-Taylor
this has sparked an idea for a street game with maybe some paint bombs or love splats whatever is less offensive

Pablo Picasso

2012-01-03T19:49:00.002Z

Pablo Picasso
Originally uploaded by Travess Smalley
This bird lady is ridiculous, well dont Pablo, well done indeed.

curious goggles

2012-01-03T19:42:00.001Z

2012

2012-01-02T20:40:00.003Z

Psychoactive deadhead

Brush pen layout pad electrostatic fruit bowl

2011-12-31T03:51:00.004Z

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NEW YEAR 2012

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meditative drawing

2011-12-29T22:13:00.003Z

Puffin post cover in print!

2011-12-29T22:07:00.003Z

Got a chance to write a bio on the back for all those aspiring cover illustrators of the future. keep it surreal and stay in school kids.

Allosh pufflings...

Work in progress prints

2011-12-29T00:57:00.000Z

A new set of Utopian ideals in the form of worlds and abstract geometric shapes and cloudy beings

Tribal border space

2011-12-28T16:05:00.002Z

An old painting from the summer, in my brothers new room.

james and giant riso

2011-12-20T23:44:00.003Z

james and giant riso
Originally uploaded by George Hayford-Taylor

Please email me if you wish to be a proud owner of one of these James and the Giant Peach prints!

B2!12

2011-12-19T17:48:00.005Z

"The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself."

-Steven Johnson

Previous posts from this blog might lead to think i am an inventing, bourgeoisie individual that lets his ideas to grow from tree to tree like a vine shaping his course towards the light as true as this might be, i am incredibly distracted. It's about time these ideologies saw their fruits of mental cognition and entered this world with as much vigor as they were imagined. It is time for a new beginning and the age of aquarius is bursting forth from the bushy content of my brain and onto this blog.
from this day on, drop on by to watch this space.

Boom Festival - A Universal Message HD from Boom Festival Official on Vimeo.

Me got magic in me eyes

2011-12-19T17:32:00.004Z

Magic all around me
Magic all around me
SUNDCLODD
Float on down to this groovy stash by Jim Stoten!

5%

2011-12-07T12:41:00.002Z

German Chris has put together an exclectic mix of illustrators, designers and image makers that have a something to say about the way things are going with the occupations. Not only is it a poignant piece about the role we have to play as a creative industry of not letting this slip under the radar but it's a lovely piece of print put together by DITTO press.

http://www.thezu.de/5percent.html

Ceramics

2011-12-05T16:36:00.002Z

I've got a few ideas for turning my drawings into ceramics pieces and start to build up an underwater mystical world of psychedelic exuberant squishyness.

3D

2011-11-30T18:45:00.004Z

Temple part

2011-11-20T14:48:00.001Z

Dimension Perspective

2011-11-18T02:43:00.003Z

Photobook MK.1

2011-11-14T02:32:00.004Z

A4 Photobook, with a CMYK mimmic risographed mini book inside.

Visual exploration

2011-11-13T22:24:00.001Z

Summer of love

2011-11-11T20:04:00.002Z

Summer of love, a set on Flickr.

British Bumble in the Concrete Jungle

2011-11-11T19:19:00.002Z

http://britishbumbleintheconcretejungle.wordpress.com/

BLOG TRIP NYC

Zabraski Magic Mushroom Carpet Collage

2011-11-11T19:05:00.006Z

Forest Phoenix

2011-11-01T22:33:00.004Z

GESTALT

2011-10-31T18:58:00.005Z

Egg dreams, the unconscious/ gestalt

Sunrise Temple

2011-10-10T20:04:00.003+01:00

Quarantine

2011-10-07T17:56:00.004+01:00

These are shots from a series of clay tips around cornwall. The industrial sites were abandoned and have been quarantined with mad dog diseases, so we went inside to explore. Driven in a beat up BMW by a lunatic down narrow roads in cornwall we are lucky to reach our final destination. We wandered through rooms of heavy machinery, walkways, passages and conveyor belts covered in thick layers of chalk and dust. Old control rooms with cathode ray monitors, log books and broken windows. We collect all the bulbs from one of the rooms in the plant and watch them disintegrate as we drop them onto the concrete far below. We follow their paths to the bottom floor down a series of ladders and find ourselves at the edge of a slime filled waterway. I notice an office chair through a cloudy window and head into a room of electronic towers set out in rows, inside we discovered an array of fire extinguishers. they soon became weapons. there seems to be an unlimited amount of ammunition because even after an hours solid of carbon dioxide dueling there are still too many left to take with us. On the way home the office chair becomes the ideal solution to transporting our loot and we load it up with several and carry the rest as we lumber to the site exit and the location of the car. We catch a glimpse of a security car and jump behind a giant cylinder. We go ahead to explore and find it parked next to our get away vehicle. No escape, so we scout a way out of the site leaving the fire extinguishers near the gate but hidden out of sight. We blag our way out of a fine from the security... and return that evening moonlight, fueled with champagne we haul the twelve hydrants back to our den.

Mushroom detectives

2011-09-04T01:00:00.004+01:00

Building temples

2011-08-31T00:52:00.003+01:00

Action

2011-07-21T20:10:00.005+01:00

I'm trying to kick myself into gear and finish some old projects. Endless lists, uncomplete are spread around my desk and i still can't stop myself from making more work that isn't anything to do with what i'm meant to be doing...

To Do:
Build mega den,
Paint my brothers Renault 4,
Layout blog book: 'Chronic book'
Order ply for skateboard press,
Pack for psychedelic quest... fuck yeah

Forest Foraging

2011-07-17T23:39:00.008+01:00

Chrome and black delivery

2011-07-15T23:26:00.002+01:00

A few new cans arrived in the post!

Time to paint all that wooooood.

Got wood?

2011-07-10T21:26:00.002+01:00

Glastonbury 2011

2011-07-03T00:44:00.004+01:00

Work in progress

2011-07-01T00:37:00.000+01:00

These are layers being inked up on the way to becoming a riso print... they're both finished now as i took these in may... the one underneath is avaliable to buy from my shop!

Summer work is due to restart after a momentus week at Glastonfree pop festivals.

http://chronicshop.bigcartel.com/

The wobbly weed temple

2011-06-14T22:46:00.005+01:00

plumes of smoke rise from the depths and millions of workers take a break from construction for a well earned doob.

The Chronic Shop

2011-06-14T21:23:00.004+01:00

Roll up, roll up, the shop is currently under construction but don't let that stop you making your first visit to the Chronic Shop...

http://chronicshop.bigcartel.com/

On sale now, 1/3 of the Lino print series DR.LSD

Also available is a double sided three colour riso print 4:20-9:00

4 different colour ways to choose from!

WOWEE!

Arcade

2011-06-12T22:05:00.005+01:00

Alriiiight, won a casino chip keyring in the arcade today!

Transporting the temple

2011-06-05T20:47:00.003+01:00

RockVsRock Portland Project

2011-05-27T11:03:00.003+01:00

Portland Peices

2011-05-23T02:04:00.004+01:00

This is my sculpture from a week extension studies carving rock in Portland. The other part of my project was throwing rocks at rocks with targets painted on them. It was fun.

Wobbly Temple

2011-05-16T23:57:00.001+01:00

This is my first 3D temple with some card nets i built to add some depth. It will include plumes of smoke, vines, viaducts, some rickety bridges, monkey riders and maybe a swimming pool on top.

Portland Extension Studies

2011-05-15T11:35:00.001+01:00

Portland rock, painting rocks, throwing rocks at rocks, stone carvings.

Firewood

2011-05-06T21:17:00.002+01:00

Easter firemaking, took my new lens out for a walk. it's the best one i've owned so far.

Board Press mk.I

2011-05-06T21:12:00.000+01:00

I've wanted to make a board press since i was 16, here we are 5 years later and it turns out they're remarkably easy to make. One evening in the workshop and i only need to get hold of some ply and glue then i'll be shredding around on my new hand shaped painted board piece.

Layout Papers

2011-05-06T18:33:00.001+01:00

Three layer paintings.

The Mill

2011-05-04T19:12:00.000+01:00

Went for a dip in the river after a few ciders over easter. Need to develop more films from the last few months.

The White Horse

2011-04-19T21:20:00.001+01:00

Sunrise and Sunset

James and the Giant Peach

2011-04-14T20:11:00.000+01:00

Putting together a few designs for the Penguin book cover competition. Some type ideas and painting testers.

Wiltshire walks

2011-04-08T00:32:00.003+01:00

Chopping wood, making fires.

Babylon

2011-04-04T21:19:00.002+01:00

Babylon
Originally uploaded by George Hayford-Taylor
Finished lino prints come as two different 3 layer lino reductions. One with Red and another green, in all possible combos-yo

Strange Occurrence II

2011-04-04T20:14:00.000+01:00

Psy-beardo

2011-03-30T01:58:00.001+01:00

A virtual tour around my new prints, one third of the series based around the discovery of LSD.

Bothin Marsh, nr Strawberry C.A.

2011-03-27T21:32:00.001+01:00

photos from a bike ride

Flickr

2011-03-27T00:19:00.005Z

Observational

2011-03-26T03:26:00.001Z

Speed sketching

Jack

2011-03-26T03:04:00.001Z

My disk drive is slightly damp so I haven't properly looked through my Frisco shots yet. So just hold tight... but here are some double pages of my sketchbook out there

Hugo & George

2011-03-18T22:00:00.005Z

http://twitter.com/#!/georgeandhugo

a new venture into the world of instant updates...

don't forget to hold tight and keep it real

San Frandisco

2011-03-17T22:06:00.002Z

San Francisco, I met this guy in a town built on stilts in a swamp. His skateboard is a pipe! We had to hurry to the forest to see the Redwoods before dark so this is all i got of him.

4:20 Dope Dimension

2011-03-03T20:58:00.003Z

Three colour, teal, purple and black.

Three colour Yellow, Red and Black.

These prints are one half of the end product of the 'Manifesto' project.

4:20 is a famous weed celebration day, it's also to do with how late i've been going to bed recently.

The second print(unfinished as yet) is about organisation and waking up... 9:00am.

Here is the link to it on flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgehayfordtaylor/5493253716/

strange occurrence

2011-02-22T05:23:00.006Z

Reduction Lino progress, 1/6

12X12 Lino

2011-02-17T03:30:00.002Z

Berlin Trip

2011-02-09T21:00:00.003Z

mural near the flea market

flea market

Contemporary art exhibition, you lie in the bed and the feathers rotate

Berghain, mega-techno-rave

"Soma" Exhibition, Reindeer on psychedelic mushrooms

Christmas in the Shire

2011-02-01T22:04:00.002Z

CD Project Swap

2011-02-01T21:50:00.002Z

My final cd case

Had a raffle at the end of the project and you got to keep 4 other peoples projects.

Thanks Mike, Jake, Pippa and Rufus for your Coffin cassette case, Youtube cats VHS, DUDEBRODUDE compilation and Sounds of south England/whale song.

By the lake

2011-01-13T23:36:00.008Z

can i click it?
yes you can

Puffin Post

2011-01-11T21:08:00.001Z

spent a while colouring this, fin and his mate chillin'

Paintings

2011-01-11T03:10:00.004Z

Scanned paintings, guna try and use these as borders or something.

there are a couple more on flickr

Barça

2011-01-06T20:55:00.002Z

Barça
Originally uploaded by George Hayford-Taylor
This is a sketch from my visual diary - Parc de Montjuïc, i got off the bus halfway up to the Miro foundation to draw this castle.

blog

2011-01-02T04:29:00.002Z

LIFE shelves
Originally uploaded by George Hayford-Taylor
http://www.portalenportalen.blogspot.com/

this blog is pretty trippy man

Tribal

2010-12-28T17:04:00.002Z

SCANNERRRR!!

Merry Christmas

2010-12-25T21:55:00.002Z

Barca
Originally uploaded by George Hayford-Taylor

from barca, naaat

Back to boom

2010-12-22T07:07:00.008Z

ϟBOOMBIESϟ

I'm going to sort through a few more shots of Boom some time soon, this is the place to see them for yourself.

ϟBOOMBIESϟ

Mitigating Circumstances

2010-12-20T16:37:00.004Z

Originally uploaded by George Hayford-Taylor

This was shot on my digital, Arthur and I took some fireworks up to a snowy woods. They made satisfying sounds.

no scanner or way of getting film developed

Batch Production

2010-12-14T20:27:00.004Z

A book explaining what i was up to in the darkroom

George Hardy bossin the crit. Some exciting books to look at and I made one from photographic paper in the darkroom. Enclosed in protective paper. The books are photocopies of the originals, double sided with some stickerz.

plants

2010-12-14T02:30:00.007Z

High Society, at the Welcome Collection, elaborated on a sketch

another planty...

Brighton Bandito

2010-12-06T18:17:00.004Z

Bandito
Originally uploaded by George Hayford-Taylor

Snoooww, a mask i made. Sam Hiscox has a sschveet blog,
http://samhiscox.blogspot.com/

Gentlemans Dub Club

2010-12-02T17:39:00.002Z

Gentlemans Dub Club played JAM on a hiiiigh note.

Darkroom Experiments

2010-12-01T18:36:00.004Z

These are some experiments I was doing in the dark room. I paitned developer onto photographic paper and used a laser pen. The idea is to make a folded book from one sheet of photographic paper. The book captures itself.

Mega session

2010-11-30T05:46:00.003Z

Originally uploaded by George Hayford-Taylor

Went for a skate at the park and when it got too cold went to Thistle underground car park, where it's really warm.

Beach House

2010-11-28T20:01:00.001Z

beach house
Originally uploaded by George Hayford-Taylor

biiiitch assss, so good

Handmade & bound

2010-11-27T22:05:00.002Z

Handmade & bound
Originally uploaded by George Hayford-Taylor

It's cold on the road, took some lino and ink to Handmade and bound, traded prints for anything and everything.

Exp.

2010-11-25T18:58:00.002Z

Experimental life drawing session.

Chillin with the sqirilz

2010-11-24T23:12:00.002Z

bunnin'

so exciiited about my new stash box

no sonny jim, you're not old enough yet

don't skate an bun

mo fo u lookin at my cards, i'll kill a man

wtf

who even did this to a frog?

The museum of everything, proper freaky shit.

taxidermy to the max.idermy

the sign was a little of putting, but was a real pleasure having these little fellows posing for me. There were 6 boxes two squirrels boxing just like a 3D comic, much better than This is Essex...

DOVBLE MVSTARD

2010-11-23T22:55:00.005Z

Screen print inducting stuff. juss making temples agen. getting old now. Made by painting onto acetate stuff with this brown oily paint stuff... emily and i made em so they fitontop, an the sky is watered down a bit so the grain of the acetate stuff shows.

mustard an prple

mustard an forest green

or double mustard

selling them if you want one.

Lino Collage Templz

2010-11-20T18:05:00.003Z

Psychedelic sights

2010-11-19T02:26:00.000Z

TEMPLZ Project

2010-11-16T17:48:00.001Z

Sketchy

2010-11-16T04:32:00.005Z

Keeps failing to upload anything better quality than this roobish, so it'll av to do

Don't photocopy yur hed it will turn into a white monster bandit rabbit

Bandit Cat

2010-11-11T22:43:00.001Z

http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgehayfordtaylor/

Summer

2010-11-11T02:41:00.002Z

Originally uploaded by George Hayford-Taylor

I never got round to sorting out the shots i took this summer. although it's a bit of a bummer seeing all the nice weather an babes and remembering it's guna snow soon enough. actually, i quite like snow too...

Copy Cat Hat

2010-11-09T02:26:00.001Z

OUTLOOK RE-UNION

2010-11-08T19:01:00.000Z

Brighton from the roof

2010-11-07T21:43:00.002Z

Hospital break-in

2010-11-06T21:17:00.002Z

Originally uploaded by George Hayford-Taylor

Psychedelic beats

2010-11-04T18:38:00.001Z

animation

Testing testing 1 2 3

I've taken some stop motions, at night, in the woods.

White Night/ Nuit Blanche 2

2010-11-04T17:36:00.002Z

Shoved em all together ya know, don't like spending too much time fiddling with iMoviez