Alison J Taylor

@alisontaylorbc.bsky.social

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I'm an artist and web developer living in BC, Canada (on the traditional land of the shishalh people). I love art, cats, chocolate, European pastries, painting and gardening, and I'm passionate about preserving the biodiversity of life on Earth.

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.
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.
An abstract painting that looks like whitewater rushing down a rocky cliff. Done in blues, whites and black, with some green bits.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A simply composed painting of a flat landscape with bright green ground covering the bottom quarter of the canvas and a cloudy sky with bits of bright blue peeking through above.
A loose, abstract rendering of prairie landscape. There's an ochre coloured flat ground and a bright blue sky, both made with energetic visible brush strokes, that evoke a windy environment.
A painting of a ferry funnel with the BC Ferries logo on it. The funnel is blue, the logo is two wavelike white swooshes, the sky is blue and the funnel is built on top of a white wall. The painting has lots of brush marks.
A concrete pier painting in oils with lots of brush marks showing in the blue water and blue sky. The posts of the pier are brown, the rest of the pier is pale grey and the railings have been omitted.
An abstract painting of a strange figure that is made up of three orange shapes linked by dark lines in charcoal. On a blueish grey background of painterly marks.
An abstract painting of what looks like a strange rounded white building with a grey window sitting on a sage green ground against a moody grey sky. A chocolate brown lean to on one side, a red blob on the ground just below it and a yellow shape near the top of it.
A loosely painted landscape with a ground of earthy greens and yellows, with touches of greyish purple. There is a dark band of trees along the horizon and a greyish-blue sky with touches of lavender.
An abstract painting that looks like a physics textbook diagram of two square weights hanging off either side of a round circle that symbolizes a pulley. The pulley is yellow. One weight is blue; the other is dark pink. The background is in dark colours on the bottom and left and white near the top right.
An abstract that could be read as a landscape that has a dark pink sky, an orange ground, dark shapes at the horizon that could be buildings and a white crystalline shape pushing into the ground below the buildings.
An abstract painting that looks like a map of a chain of yellow, orange and red islands on a blue and green sea.
A stylized, somewhat abstract, landscape painting. The bottom 3/4 of the painting is a deep blue colour ocean. There is a thin line of dark islands at the horizon and a grey/white cloudy sky.
An abstract painting that looks like an underground (white) lightning bolt in red ground, with a green sky above.
A loosely painted, nearly abstract landscape. There is dark green and black ground in the bottom 20% of the painting, with a sky that is white near the horizon and grey/blue near the top. There are two dark clouds and brush marks below them that could be interpreted as rain falling.
An abstract painting that has a landscape-like background that has a red-orange 'sky' above a dark grey background. Overlaid on that is a bright blue abstract shape andlots of small rectanges in orange and red.
A painting of a green lake in the foreground, brown mountains behind, yellow sunset behind the mountains and green sky, with dark blue/green foreground. Very lose and watery looking, made with ink drops that spread over the paper and mix with each other.
An abstract painting in blue, deep mossy green and white, that looks a bit like the edge of a forest, with an evergreen on the left side, shrubs and small trees along the bottom and a white sky that could be interpreted as the sun shining through mist.
An abstract painting in blacks, dark browns, grey and white. Dark shapes extend from the left side and the bottom right corner and come close to touching each other near the centre of the painting. There are lots of lacelike textured marks.
A loose, semi-abstract painting of a sailboat coming into dock with both its sails still up. The horizon is angled instead of horizontal, there is an orange flag on the left, the dock in the centre and a post in the bottom right. The painting mostly in bright blue colours.
An almost abstract painting in blue and white, with bits of green and black, which could be read as water at the bottom, with a strip of dark land above, and sky above that.
A very small painting sitting on a concrete step. The painting shows an ocean and beach on the bottom left, a green plant-covered hill on the right hand side and a white and pale blue sky above.
An abstract painting in blue and white that looks a bit like clouds in the sky. It is shown resting on a concrete staircase.
A large pond with willow trees and grass in the foreground and a dark hill and blue sky with clouds in the background. Along the right hand side is a path with a person walking a small dog in the distance.
A pale yellow/pink sunset behind two low-lying tree-covered islands. Pale blue sky at the top and dark shrubs at the bottom.
A picture of a silver-coloured spiky succulent plant growing on otherwise bare soil, casting a shadow against the soil.
An abstract painting in alcohol ink, sitting on a white tile, which is on a white table, The painting is red and pink, with a series of increasingly large white dots which are laid out in a curve.
An abstract painting in alcohol ink, propped up on a concrete step. The painting is all a slightly greenish blue and looks a bit like rivulets of water on a pane of glass.
A photograph of five containers of apple crips: 2 round glass dishes (one partially eaten) and 3 rectangular tin foil containers.
A small abstract painting lying centered on a white tile. The painting is mostly red, pink, orange and yellow, with a little bit of mossy green. It contains numerous round blobs, some nested inside larger blobs, several levels deep.
An abstracted landscape in alcohol inks that could be read as a bush of red flowers against a grassy background with a blue sky with white clouds.
A oil and cold wax painting on a paper whose woven texture shows through. The painting could be interpreted as a landscape, with navy blue and dark forest green plants in the foreground and white sky with pale grey blue mixed in. There are various scratchy marks throughout the painting.
This is an abstract painting with a textured white background and two dark dark shapes of black, brown and a touch of blue, reaching out to each other from the left and right sides. The point where they nearly touch is the focus of the painting.
An abstract painting which could be read as a landscape with a blue foreground covering the bottom 60% of the painting, yellow and brown "bushes" on top of that, against a mostly white (with some pale blue) sky.
A photograph of a handmade greeting card that has an alcohol ink painting of a deep red heart shape on a pink background.
One sheet of paper with two tall, narrow paintings on it. the paintings are semi-abstract and look like fields of lime green grass with a white sky (with touches of blue) and some orange and blue areas in the grass. There are lots of linear scratchy marks throughout.
A small (4 x 3 inch painting) on cradled board, which is deep enough that the painting stands on its own on a table. It is shown here on a desktop. It is mostly blues (turquoise and royal blue) and white, with touches of lime green. It shows mountains with a few evergreen trees. The mountains are outlined - and the trees are drawn - in scratchy pencil marks.
A small painting made in alcohol ink that can be interpreted as a nighttime landscape. The sky at the left looks like the aurora borealis in is purple with some small white circles that could be stars. The sky at the right looks like billowing blue clouds. In the middle of the right hand side there are distant islands in blue with water in front. In the middle of the left hand side, and across the bottom, are blobs of blue that read as a pile of rocks.
A small alcohol ink painting framed in white, sitting on a concrete surface outdoors. The painting could be interpreted as a scene of of water, with a white sky, blue splashing water below and some blue/green rocks in the bottom right corner.
An abstract painting that looks like it could be water rushing down a rocky ravine from the top-centre to the bottom-right. The painting is in brown, red-purple and blue-purple, with the water being white.
A photo of a very small painting (3 x 4 inch) on a deep cradled board, so it can stand up by itself. It is standing on a staircase. It is a very loosely painted image of a bay of water on a sunny day, with a dark island or point in the distance. The water is turquoise blue with some lime green in it. The sky is a mix of white and pale blue. The point is a dark navy with flecks of brown.
A whimsical painting with a very sloped horizon of a sailboat coming into dock. All you can see of the sailboat is the sails and it is sailing nose-on into the dock which wouldn't be possible. There's a pale turquoise sky, deep turquoise water, the white sails of the boat, a grey dock and a grey dock post, and an orange pennant flag.
A small painting made with alcohol ink, which is a runny type of paint that is hard to control. The painting is mostly blue with streams of aqua blue ink running from the middle to the bottom left. There is an area of brown and purple blobs running from the top left down to the mid-right. Overall, it looks like a pile of rocks jutting out into a rushing stream.
An abstract painting made in alcohol ink, with lots of circles layered inside each other and random shapes from the liquid ink flowing. Includes hot pink, lime green and a turquoise blue.
A small painting in alcohol ink. All in deep blue/greens. Sky at the top, distance mountains and islands below that. Water below that. And rocks at the bottom. The rocks are made of of splashy circles made from dripping the ink onto non-absorbent paper.
A small painting in alcohol ink, lying on a white tile, so it look like it is framed. The painting shows a downtown street between high-rise buildings with windows. As the street disappears into the distance, the building outlines become vague, with no windows. Foreground buildings are brown/grey with blue and white windows. Distance buildings are a pink/grey. The street is light coloured and the sidewalk areas are dark brown. It is painted in a very loose style.
A painting in alcohol ink that shows a green body of water, with brown mountains behind and dark blue/green shore in the foreground. The sun is setting behind the mountains in a band of yellow and the upper sky is green.