Claire Taylor

Transcendence by Observation

In attempting to describe sublime experiences in words, one feels inadequate or pretentious. Perhaps this is why landscape painters have taken on depicting the sublime. Claire Taylor follows this tradition by visually expressing her ineffable encounters and conversations with what humans refer to as “the natural world”—a named distinction for wildlife and landscapes as if we are separate from them. By sharing her experiences, Taylor challenges the construct of the nature/culture divide.

Exhibited at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in 2019.

Waking Map

Watercolor, gouache, colored pencil // 18” x 24”

Acknowledged by the Sunset at Horse Thief

Watercolor, gouache, colored pencil // 33.75” x 45”

Loved by the Prickly Pear

Watercolor, gouache, colored pencil // 33.75” x 45”

Understood by the Mama Fox

Watercolor, gouache // 33.75” x 45”

Grounded by the Rock with Wings

Watercolor, gouache // 33.75” x 45”

Field Work Field Guide Series

Salt Lake City Cemetery

Bonneville Shoreline Trail

City Creek Canyon

Liberty Park

Jordan River Parkway

Hidden Hollow

Sky Snakes Series

Letterpress printed reduction linocut. Made as part of an artist residency with the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art.

Snake Walk Series

Snake Walk in Sunlight

Letterpress printed linocut, watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, PVA

The Dragon's Bird Mind

Letterpress printed linocut, watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, gel pen and rice paste

Now I Shed Some Skin artist book

Desert Solitaire 50 Series

Illustration and design commissioned by Ken Sanders Rare Books and Back of Beyond Books on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Edward Abbey’s “Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness.”

Dry Creek Series

Coyote Approach

7" x 10"

Dead Deer Found by Magpie and Coyotes

18" x 24"

Dead Deer

7" x 10"

Affection in my Salt Lake City Home

Red Butte Creek and Canyon Series

A grant from Friends of Red Butte Creek and the Global Change and Sustainability Center at the University of Utah supported this project.

Water for the Residents

watercolor, gouache, colored pencil // 18" x 24"

Meetings with Arthropods at a Thistle

watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, gel pen // 18" x 24"

Wapiti Mating Call

watercolor, colored pencil // 18" x 24"

Fawns

watercolor, colored pencil // 18" x 24"

A Ground We Know

watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, gel pen // 18" x 24"

Reminder from a Terrestrial Garter Snake

watercolor, colored pencil // 18" x 24"

Rocks Without Clocks

watercolor, colored pencil // 18” x 24”

Bones of an Unknown Beast

watercolor, colored pencil // 18" x 24"

Letterpress Prints

Soul, Self, Shadow

2011 / linocut, photopolymer / 15"x22"

Floating

2013 / photopolymer / 14"x18"

Pony and Pondwater

2008 / cintracut, photopolymer / 8"x10"

I Met the Fox

2011 / linocut / 8"x10"

Middle Ground

2010 / linocut, photopolymer / 6"x6"

Cat Talk

2010 / pressure print, linocut, photopolymer / 15"x15"

Wolf Pack

2010 / linocut, photopolymer / 8 cards @ 2.5"x3.5"

Afternoon Conversations

2009 / photopolymer / 11"x15"

It's Pretty Fantastic

2012 / linocut, photopolymer / 11"x15"

A Fawn's Jungle

2009 / linocut / 12"x15"

2007 / pressure print, photopolymer, metal type / 10"x8"

The Science Brigade: On Through

2008 / cintracut, photopolymer, metal type / 10"x15"

Keep On Keeping On

2014 / photopolymer / 5"x7"

Blue Moon

2009 / linocut, photopolymer / 8"x10"

Luxury

2007 / linocut, metal type / 5"x5"

Affair in Brazil

2005 / linocut, metal type, typographic map / 5"x5"

Love Cats

2008 / Pressure print, metal type / 11"x14.25"

And Now This See

2006 / linocut, cintracut, wood type, metal dingbats / 10.5"x13.5"

Bill!

2008 / photopolymer, metal type / 7.5"x7.5"

Pigeons

2005 / linocut, metal type / 8"x10"

The Arrival of the Third Party

2006 / linocut, metal type / 11"x15"

Fish Springs Wildlife Refuge Series

Rabbit Ecology Series

Rabbit Ecology I

18" x 24"

Rabbit Ecology II

18" x 24"

Rabbit Ecology III

18" x 24"

Rabbit Ecology IV

18" x 24"

Thoughts on Existence As Told by Coyote Series

Logo & Design work

Logo for the Halophyte Collective

Logo for Yarnsworth Media LLC

Book cover

Event poster design

People

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Transcendence by Observation

Field Work Field Guide Series

Sky Snakes Series

The Inhabitants of the Salt Lake City Cemetery (Illustrated Essay)

Snake Walk Series

Now I Shed Some Skin artist book

Desert Solitaire 50 Series

Dry Creek Series

Affection in my Salt Lake City Home

Red Butte Creek and Canyon Series

Letterpress Prints

Fish Springs Wildlife Refuge Series

Rabbit Ecology Series

Thoughts on Existence As Told by Coyote Series

Logo & Design work

Now I Shed Some Skin

People