Janet Taylor | Paintings and Prints

Echoes of Songs

All of my work draws from my close observations of our physical world.

In these paintings, lines and shapes distilled from echoes in sound and water are abstracted and become a visual language for exploring our stories.

Using brushstrokes, drawing and glazes, I create complex interactions of marks on the surface, reflecting our interactions with each other and our world. Slowly each painting accumulates meaning, narrative and beauty. My hope is that the longer the viewer lingers over each painting the more resonances they may find with the songs and echoes in their own lives

About Janet Taylor

I am obsessed with those extraordinary moments that surface within the mundane. Maybe it’s a fragment of murmured harmony as you brush through a grassy field, a blink of joining pattern in branches overhead, or just the way a ray of light dances across the lake on a gentle misty morning. However ordinary the source, the fugitive beauty of an instant catches you and seizes your soul as a perfect moment of existence. It may be a moment of calm or peace, or maybe of excitement, awe or joy—but that right there, that fleeting glimpse of the energy and connection of the macrocosm—that’s why I make art.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

–Frank Lloyd Wright

How I Make Fine Art Prints

The making of a fine art print of course begins with the creation of the image. But then that image also has to be a physical object you can hang on your wall. In traditional printmaking the process of creating the image also creates the physical print, but with a digital original as many of my works are, you have to get the image from the screen onto the paper. I approach the making of a digital print with the same care and attention to detail that I do when I am making a lithograph or etching on a traditional press.