Marjorie Taylor-Thomas

Marjorie Taylor-Thomas paints acrylic and watercolor landscapes of Long Island and Maine. Recurring themes in her paintings echo her lifetime love of old buildings and rural landscapes. She seeks to capture light and atmosphere that express the essence of her subjects…autumn light in a country lane, shadow patterns on an old farmhouse, many moods of the bay, cliffs and crashing surf on the Maine coast, fogbound island views…all speak to her imagination.
Taylor-Thomas has been creative all of her life and began, as a young teen, painting in watercolor with landscape and portrait painter, Sara Whitney Olds. After majoring in advertising design at Pratt Institute, she spent her working life as a corporate art and communications director and freelance illustrator. Her need for a more pure creative avocation led her to study abstract photography with Stanley Twardowicz and oil painting with colorist John Black. More recently, Taylor-Thomas returned to the immediacy and freshness of watercolor and acrylic painting, studying with Joanne Scott of Monhegan Island, Maine, and locally with Sal Tortora, Nancy Elfenbein, Kathy Reba and Ruth Badarian, and participating in local workshops. She has taught drawing in the Sayville Adult Education Program and is a former Director of Gallery North in Setauket.
Taylor-Thomas’s award-winning paintings have been shown at Gallery East, Omni Gallery, STAC, Bellport Lane Gallery, ALLI, BACCA, Wet Paints, and Gallery North. She is a member of Phoenix Gallery in Bellport and shows there frequently. Her work has been acquired for numerous private art collections.

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