Keith Taylor
Born Lethbridge, Alberta March 1945. Art and ornithology linked when returning to Canada from Australia and joining the staff at the British Columbia Museum as curator of collections and illustrator of books and scientific papers. Self-employed from mid-1980’s as a freelance bird illustrator at which time watercolour paintings of birds dominated my art sales with several one-man shows with pieces selling in galleries. Art work has principally become a retirement pastime presently that began with a series of small, high-realism acrylic landscapes and more recently birds in gouache.
Paintings have been shown at the Tulista Art Gallery, Roost Restaurant, Saanich Fair Art Gallery – where two won second prize ribbons, Bubble Tea Place, Koffee Cafe, Bruce Hutchison Library, Saanich Municipal Hall, Cedar Hill Center, Coffee and Tea Cafe, Fickle Fig Restaurant, Truth Gym Gallery, McTavish Academy of Art, and the Panorama Centre. Pieces have been accepted on three occasions to the juried Sooke Fine Art show and nine times to the juried Mary Winspear Show where one piece won the Juror’s Choice Award and two won honorable mention. Past awards include a portrait admitted to the National Diploma Collection of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour.
The latest project was illustrating 40 species of duck that have occurred in British Columbia. Giclee prints are being produced with 5 each of 17 paintings with the entire set to be printed eventually. A book of the provincial ducks with text and range maps has been produced and awaiting publishing.
For more information about Central Saanich Branch Library Exhibition, please contact exhibits@spacsociety.com.