Mixed Media Wildlife Collage Art by Lori Taylor
"The Prairie Keepers" 15 x 30", Collage on canvas, 2024 $450.00 BUY NOW
The experience of observing a bison cow giving birth in the Oklahoma Tallgrass Prairie Preserve was an amazing story! With the herd in the distance, another cow with her own new calf waits nearby the new mother as she births a calf. Immediately after, a coyote prances out hoping for a moment to grab a meal--but upon seeing us it swiftly retreats. The calf rises, stiff-legged then prances off with its mother tumbling once to join the herd--the set of mother and calf tracks. This highly textured mixed media in oil sticks/acrylic has big blue stem and sweetgrass seeds imbedded in the cow's fur, real grasses, fleeing meadowlarks, and prickly pear cacti. As keepers of the prairie the bison plant grasses with those seeds as they roll in wallows. A sparrow gleans seeds from a buffalo chip. All take part in this keeping of the prairie. Life ever moving, growing, and planting
"Box Canyon Unboxing" Gray Hawk, 19 x 25", 2024 $580.00 BUY NOW
Unboxing the memories and experience of the Arizona box canyon in April. A calling gray hawk and brief chuckwalla appearance on a rock ledge stage. Cacti of all varieties dot the shelves like a florist had arranged them just so. Mexican jays and orioles weave through the canyon canopy that spring day. Acrylic with plaster of paris texture on wood frame box, vintage boxes hold fiber and mixed media cacti, cheesecloth, map pieces of the area and texture mediums with collagraph textured paper.
"Raven Speaks" 16 x 20", 2024 $450.00 BUY NOW
This curious and noisy raven and I often held afternoon conversations with each other. A trickster by trade and bringer of messages and shiny jokes, this raven fills his nest of goodies. The skull of paper and painted forest and collaged ephemera are just a few treasures in this piece.
Knock on Wood 11 x 14", Collage on Canvas, 2024 $250.00 BUY NOW
Pileated woodpecker family and forest life meet with paper collage and actual gathered wood chip gift, fern and oak leaf, dyed vintage lace, and fibers, on textured canvas with text on lumbering practices.
Mountain Gem: Blue-throat Hummingbird 11 x 14", Collage on Canvas, 2024 $250.00 BUY NOW
Life-sized blue gem hummingbird female in watercolor sits atop her collaged nest, collagraph print of Chiracauhua Mountains of Arizona. Cedar, stick, faux spider web, and earth "gems" from the mountains help ground this mixed media piece.
Island Royale Home 16 x 20", Collage on Canvas, 2024, $450.00 BUY NOW
The faux birchbark scroll tells of another time not so long ago on America's most remote and least visited national park. This basalt island home to moose, wolf, fox, otter, Canada jay and boreal chickadee live in a place where time moves slowly, the seasons changing rapidly. I consider myself fortunate for having experienced this place and riding the steel gray-green waters in kayak and park boat.
What Shall Happen To the One...
14 x 18", Collage on Canvas, 2025, $175.00 BUY NOW
"What shall happen to the one will happen to the other" wise words, especially when it concerns the biological health of Isle Royale and the wolves and moose in their constant connected dance of survival. Layers in the telling, stitched and embroidered, threads of life held in text and tracks.