Rebecca Taylor: Artist, Photographer, Writer

I am a compassionate and supportive artist and art teacher. I create colorful paintings, prints, collages, and comics, and teach others how to express themselves through art making. I create to improve my mental well-being and believe others can and should use creation as a tool for their well-being too. Because I believe that art is essential for neurological and emotional good health, I encourage all people of all ages to create art, “good” or “bad.” I make art that makes me smile and brings me nostalgia for places once been, with colors that delight my brain chemistry. I am a trustworthy cheerleader who will help you nurture your creative endeavors.

My work is vivid, inspired by fauvists, surrealists, and abstract artists. When you look at my paintings you will see brightly colored planes of smooth paint with the edges of these organic shapes being bumpy or raised from paint build-up. My prints, collages, and comics follow suit with only paper wrinkles as texture in the collages. Often my color choices are highly contrasting, saturated, and unrealistic. My works are smaller and are suitable for smaller, more intimate spaces. They are inspired by people I have known and places I have traveled, not only geographically but mentally, including my own dreamland. I believe every person has the ability to create and should. Most often, my work displays the beauty of places and life, although sometimes I touch on the darkness. But rarely is there a gray sky in my pieces. Much like Claude Monet’s declaration, “I must have flowers, always, and always, I declare that I must always have blue skies, or pink, or purple, or orange. But never gray.