Jennifer Stottle Taylor
Jennifer Stottle Taylor was brought up with classical realism, but now she is trying to combine and break the rules with thick, impasto style impressionism. “I use brushes and palette knives, and anything else I can get my hands on to make the energetic strokes more energetic,” she says. “How much color can I put into each piece? I am an avid learner not only of art, but of how the brain works and the eye transmits information, and what in the world my hand can produce with this synaptic connection. It is an odd fascination. But the more I learn by observation from life, the more I experiment.”
Most of Taylor’s art has been produced from life, and then some larger pieces reproduced from the smaller life pieces.
Her artwork is recognized by its magenta undertone that she puts on most of her paintings and lets bleed through exposing the joy she had while painting.
“I am attracted to many subjects,” she says. “Tea sets to sunsets and sunrises are all about pushing colors and extracting patterns. Then there are my interiors, similar to the tablescapes, that have many similar colors and values side by side and I am making them sing together, like conducting a chorus of classical music then adding some jazz. I have painted animals for years, and they do not take center stage much in my art, but I have not forgotten them. I am utilizing their bodies in different ways to make patterns of color. Interesting shapes and lines.” Taylor’s artwork is currently on view at Steamboat Art Museum as part of Looking West: An Exhibition Highlighting Works by American Women Artists. The show hangs through September 2.
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