Shannon Taylor

Shannon Taylor is a painter, illustrator, craftsman and educator based out of Oakland, California. She is the Assistant Chair of the Illustration Program at the California College of the Arts, and has also been the long-time Director of Art and Restoration at Children’s Fairyland in Oakland. Taylor exhibits her work extensively with galleries Arch Enemy Arts in Philadelphia, Modern Eden in San Francisco, as well as Haven Gallery in New York, and Beinart in Australia. Taylor’s client lists include Netflix, Bath and Body Works, Saylor Agency, Shondaland, Paragon Books, Monsa Publications, Edition One Books, Fashion Fights Cancer, Vote Equality and Artists 4 ERA among others. She has been interviewed on podcasts such as the Jealous Curator’s “Art for your Ears” and “Mad About Miniatures”, and featured on sites like Colossal and Beautiful Bizarre.

A highly prolific artist, Taylor has developed a style of watercolor that is distinctly her own, utilizing rich colors, layers of blending, dry-brushing, and pattern work, Taylor is constantly pushing and expanding on the possibilities of the medium. Often conjuring the decorative and figurative qualities of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and aesthetic movement, Taylor’s work is an exploration of beauty. In her paintings, heavy indigo skies are filled with stars, and flowers bloom from the backs of languid, lovely women, and tiny worlds can be held in your hand; the world that Taylor has made is gilt, prismatic, and lovingly wrought.