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An Evening with Sallie Taylor
Written By: Zach Claxton - Highlands-Cashiers Art League | Issue: 2016/09 - September
By the time she was five, Sallie Taylor knew that she wanted to be an artist. Her parents allowed her to put holes in the walls to anchor string across the room to which she would clothespin her paintings. Art has remained her passion ever since. In 1977 she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Arts from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, and in 1980 she earned a Masters of Art Education from the University of Georgia.
Earning a living as a full-time artist is a rare accomplishment for even the most talented and determined artists. Taylor also found that done right, being a mother is a full-time job, so there were life choices to make. She chose to put her studio art on the back burner while she raised a family and sought a more stable income.
She found a practical and satisfying career in teaching art to grades k-12, a vocation lasting 24 years and liberally sprinkled with other outside involvement in art-related activities, but she found time during summer and Christmas breaks to paint. By 1996 her work found its way into juried shows, earning several awards, and in April this year, her work was among only 400 pieces out of 1,400 submissions juried into the prestigious ArtFields exhibit in Lake City, South Carolina.
In 2010 Taylor began a six-year association with The Bascom, rising quickly through various positions of increasing responsibility.
The kids are grown now, and with retirement benefits from two state school systems easing the need to work full-time, Taylor has made another life choice, and studio art is now back on the front burner. Our community will be the beneficiary.
She works in oil, in a style that might best be described at photorealism, and her paintings are remarkable. She is currently working on a series of paintings she refers to as “hand portraits.”
The Art League is fortunate to have as its final speaker of the season Taylor, who will talk about the process she uses to create her magnificent art and how she gets her ideas for paintings. On September 26 in The Bascom atrium, social time is 4:30 P.M. with Taylor’s presentation at 5:00 P.M.
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