Carrie Taylor studied at Harrogate College of Art and Bradford Art College and was also taught by Jean Georges Simon, a Hungarian artist who became a major influence on her work. Simon was a close friend of Bourdelle and Modigliani when he lived and worked in Paris.

It is an annual delight for us when St Just artist Carrie Taylor brings her latest collection of work for photography and exhibition. While never shy of painting the “big picture” and extolling the delights of the majestic landscape around us here in West Cornwall, Carrie more often than not looks to the hedgerows and patches of untended ground and to the shore for her hidden glories. Her focus on twigs and branches, grassy banks and strandlines and on the timid creatures of scrub and bush and shore, make her paintings a delight to behold. In the tradition of eighteenth century British naturalist Gilbert White, Carrie Taylor looks at natural habitats and shares her observations with us through her paintings.