In 1989 she received her BA degree with specialization in Dance from the University of Winnipeg. She then moved to Montreal, Quebec where she went on to dance professionally from 1993-2000. During healing from an injury she picked up a paint brush and in 2004, she received her BFA in Painting and Drawing (With Distinction) from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.
Since 2004 she has sold and exhibited her work across Canada, the USA and Europe. In Canada she is represented by Warehouse Artworks, Wayne Arthur and Lacosse Gallery in Winnipeg. Tayler is a member of the Women Painters of Washington and the Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters.
Artist Statement:
We have a place of memories we can call home. Memories that reside in our body. They form an undulating core at the heart of our being. My work attempts to explore the memory landscape that is written into each of us.
The challenge of finding the cohesion of gesture and color keeps me motivated to uncover and discover.
As a dancer for most of my life I bring a unique perspective to composition and space. Negotiating between instability and balance while carving space in a rehearsal studio or on a stage now becomes gestures in 2 dimensions on paper or other support.
In the past I have created art reusing manmade materials discarded everyday such as cardboard, plastic, cigarette butts, twine and nail clippings. My vocabulary includes images from photographs and drawings of the devastation of the urban landscape from natural and manmade disasters such as architectural skeletal structures left behind by a fire or tornado. Images I often use are from demolished construction sites, partly finished bridges, abandoned and decaying industrial sites. These images I juxtapose with images of organic, abstracted rocks, roots, trees and water. My work attempts to investigate what effect these abandoned sites have on the natural world.
These surreal worlds and abstracted landscapes embody both serenity and instability, resulting in a dreamlike tension from which subjective narratives can be born. I create pieces that consciously allow for open interpretation and multiple perspectives.
