Alison J Taylor

I really like how the fabrics are rendered at the bottom of this drawing. Great line work.

Took me a few moments before I noticed the subtle face hidden in the rocks!

Thank you for organizing this, Jay! It's always a treat to see the work of so many artists, and I appreciate the encouragement to share my own. I hope you and Sam and the rest of the household have a lovely holiday. Merry Christmas!

A striking black and white photo of Glasgow. I love strong light-dark contrasts in art. Makes for a dramatic visual.

An abstract painting that is mostly a moody deep blue visually textured surface, with green areas. A white band (with soft edges) runs for about 1/3 of the way from the left side across to the right side of the painting, where it goes around the edge of the canvas. There are brown areas adjacent to the4 white band.

Day 24 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar.

An abstract that I call "Still a Ray of Hope". (I hope that's still true in these days of advancing climate change.) The white bit is unpainted canvas and the painting wraps around the edges. Size 24 x 24 inches. Oil on canvas.

A painting of a pier jutting out into the water. The pier is concreted and the water is dark blue. The sky is pale yellow. The pier starts at the top left and ends at the mid-right.

Day 23 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar.

My art school graduation project (years ago): a painting of a pedestrian pier in the town near my home. I've removed the hand railings for a more streamlined composition. Something like 30 x 40 inches. Oil on canvas.

Thank you Solarpunk!

It's amazing how things can be rendered so accurately with solid areas of patterned paper. I love the dog's expression on this.

I like how the papers, paint and stitching are combined to make this mixed media artwork on canvas.

Hard to believe these aren't real tree trunks! Especially that one on the right. At first I thought it was a reference photo...

Very cool photo. Great colours, lighting and unique subject matter.

An abstract painting that looks like whitewater rushing down a rocky cliff. Done in blues, whites and black, with some green bits.

Day 22 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar.

A 6 x 6 inch painting of a creek rushing down rocks. Oil on canvas. This is one of a set of three paintings of creeks and rocks with the same size, colours and style.

A painting of a ferry funnel showing the distinctive BC Ferries logo which has two wavy white swooshes on a blue background. There are mountains behind the funnel and the whole painting is done in a graphic style.

Day 21 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar.

Another painting of a BC Ferries funnel, created back when I was taking the ferry to and from art school. This one is more graphic in style than the one I shared earlier this month. Something like 24 x 36 inches. Oil on canvas.

Thank you!

What a sweet portrait of this primate. The quality of light is beautiful.

What an evocative clay sculpture. I wonder what it will look like once the glaze firing is complete?

I'm really taken with how the hair is rendered in this lovely pencil drawing.

I loved that series!

What a dramatic photo! This looks like an interesting park to visit.

A photograph of a small painting sitting on grey concrete steps. It shows a hillside rising towards the right, with a few remaining tall evergreen trees still standing, that have few branches. The painting is quite monochrome, made using a dark greyish green colour mixed with various amounts of white. There are a few deep blue marks.

Day 20 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar.

A small painting of an imaginary hillside with a few remaining tall evergreen trees. About 7 x 5 inches. Oil on canvas.

A small painting shown framed in black frame sitting on grey concrete steps. The painting shows a stick figure viewed from the site, walking to the right. It has an orange head and holds an orange object between its arms.

Day 19 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar.

This is "Helping Out". 7 x 5 inches oil on canvas. Shown framed and sitting on concrete steps.

An asbtract painting of an imaginary mountain range. Mostly in whites and greys with touches of colour. Lots of swirly brush marks in one darker area at the bottom right.

Day 18 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar.

An older painting of an imaginary mountain range. I grew up on the slopes of mountains on the North Shore of Vancouver BC. This painting harks back to those. Oil on canvas-covered board. Something like 11 x 14 inches.

Thank you!

Beautiful photo of a beautiful place...

Which is the real one, indeed! That felted creation is amazingly accurate. (And very cute, with the tongue hanging out.)

This painting is so cute!

What a gorgeous rendering of this sheep. It amazes me what people can do with graphite and an eraser.

This is an abstract painting that can be read as a simplified landscape. The top 1/3 is blue sky (white down near the horizon) and the bottom 2/3 is dark ground. Variation in darkness and colour, and transparency, make for visual interest.

Day 17 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar.

Oil paint on canvas, with a glossy medium. About 16 x 20 inches. I called it "Deep Beneath the Soil". Made it years ago, and was delighted when it sold through the local gallery's members show. Still one that I love.

An abstract painting with a grey/white background. It represents a birds eye view of some docks, a dock building and a gazebo at the end of the dock, all rendered in red, orange and yellow. Small quite rectangles represent boats in the water. A blue curved line represents the edge of the shore.

Day 16 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar.

This painting came out of a week long workshop where, for one project, we were encouraged to paint a 'map' of something. I choose a local marina. There are orange docks, white boats and a blue line representing the edge of the shore.

Wow... I had no idea you could get a glassy surface like that with polymer clay.