Artist Statement - De Taylor
Life experiences and my lifetime passion of expressing my love for
family, friends, outdoor sports and a desire to create have lead
me to the present pursuit of creating images with the use of pastels.
For years I dreamed of being an artist. After retiring from a successful
retail business in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, I began experiencing
with pastels. Ah,
what a thrill to find that the use of pastels comes as second nature to me; feeling
as though they are an extension of my own fingers and soul.
Pastels blend so quickly, layering, combining into a painting, often
accentuating a particular area of the paper. Often I utilize my own photographs and
my own imagination for my paintings, all of which are a result of my experiences
in the past, dreams of the future, while living fully today. |