I'm Tim Taylor, an artist and educator living in Savannah, GA with my wife and two dogs. I teach Foundation courses at the Savannah College of Art and Design. I took the long way round obtaining a master’s degree in writing before my wife told me to follow my passion to art school. Now, I fluctuate between the two.
I've always been somewhat stuck in the middle. I’m a middle child born in the early 80's. I don't entirely fit in with either Gen X or Millennials. I grew up at the edge of Appalachia, in the tri-state between West Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky. I’m not Northern although West Virginia went with the North, and I’m not Southern despite growing up south of the Mason Dixon line. As a kid, I changed what I wanted to be with every book I read. In college, I took classes in every department from physics to phys ed. The same indecision bleeds into my artwork and the range of media I use. The result is a body of work that is a patchwork of styles and media. I’ve published comics in memoir, essay, and fiction, exhibited collections of drawing, painting, photography, and printmaking, and expanded into the third dimension through book-binding, knitting, and sculpture.
Knitting and book-binding blend design and utilitarian practicality that gives me an ongoing sense of accomplishment with each use. Photography captures what I see in the moment, providing the viewer a glimpse through my eyes. Painting allows a more impressionistic idea of what could be. Drawing facilitates the notetaking of immediate thoughts and emotions with each mark a physical representation of a synapse firing. Comics provides a wider canvas to expand thoughts into narrative. And writing mines into thoughts and emotions with more depth and context than an image alone.
All of these seemingly disparate interests and outlets come down to one connective thread. I’m a storyteller. And I try to tell true stories, even when they are made up.
