Happiness

Happiness is: an alpine forest, sparkling waterfalls, brown bears, and the hum of woodland life. Happiness is: the escapist pop landscapes of Benjamin Thomas Taylor. Happiness is: this dazzling limited edition giclee print.

Known for creating fanatical scenes, contemporary pop artist Thomas Taylor plays with the conventions of art. His signature paint-by-numbers motif asks where the work of the artist ends and the involvement of the viewer begins.

Here, the word Happiness sits over Thomas Taylor’s landscape, the typeface left blank save for the vague blue lines and digits of the paint-by-numbers chart. Fill it in and the scene would be complete - but happiness would also disappear. A celebration of incompleteness and the complexity of joy, Thomas Taylor’s pop art for the twenty-first century brings us nothing but sheer happiness.