‘Starry Snail (Looking Down)’ by Shannon Taylor

Artist: Shannon Taylor
Title: ‘Starry Snail (Looking Down)’
Medium: Watercolour on paper
Dimensions: 9″ x 7″
Framing: Framed in antique Eastlake frame (frame size: 13.5″ x 8.25″)
Year of Creation: 2021

NOTE: This piece was available to purchase as part of our ‘Stardust Antennas’ show, which ran between 6th – 27th August 2021. If you would like to inquire about its current availability, please email sales@wowxwow.com and we will be delighted to assist.

Description

‘Starry Snail (Looking Down)’ by Shannon Taylor

Artist: Shannon Taylor
Title: ‘Starry Snail (Looking Down)’
Medium: Watercolour on paper
Dimensions: 9″ x 7″
Framing: Framed in antique Eastlake frame (frame size: 13.5″ x 8.25″)
Year of Creation: 2021

About the Artist:

(Artist Bio)

Shannon Taylor is a painter, illustrator, and educator based out of Oakland, California. She is a professor in the Illustration Program at the California College of the Arts, and has held the position of Director of Art and Restoration at Children’s Fairyland in Oakland since 2012.

Taylor has been working in watercolor since childhood, learning the skill from her italian grandmother. A highly prolific artist, Taylor has developed a style of painting 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 and aesthetic movements, 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; the world that Taylor has made is gilt, prismatic, and lovingly wrought.