Phyllis taylor

Taylor retired to Astoria, OR, after 40 years at Indiana University as a graphic designer, illustrator, and instructor. Now she is pursuing her dream of painting. “It takes a lot of time to paint and experiment with how to best portray a subject.  Now I have that time.” Primary mediums are watercolor and acrylics. 
 
Taylor graduated with a B.S. double major in English literature and music with a minor in botany. In graduate school at CSULB, she studied art history, photography and graphic design—and more music.  
Taylor grew up in Southern California, but spent many summers working on her grandparents’ blueberry farm in Crescent City, CA, falling in love with the PNW coast.

She also enjoys playing cello and/or singing in many music groups in NW Oregon and the Long Beach peninsula.  Her mother was an artist and her dad was a musician so Taylor and her siblings grew up with a lot of art and music. She has studied portraiture with Ted Nuttall most recently. In 2020 Taylor’s painting of Oregon’s endangered Silverspot butterfly received the People’s Choice award in the Oregon Habitat Conservation Stamp 2021 art competition.  
 
How did she get involved with TEAA?  “By taking workshops.  I had fun creating art and meeting lots of other artists in this nice facility.”  Contact Phyllis by EMAIL.