Meet the artist
Karin Taylor is a wildlife artist based in beautiful British Columbia.
KARIN TAYLOR is a wildlife artist based on the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia.
In her studio in Gibsons Karin hand sculpts her (yoga) bear statues and creates her coastal and wildlife paintings
Karin prefers to work with unusual canvases and materials.
Her choice of 'canvas' has ranged from huge boulders to wild turkey feathers to canvas.
Currently Karin hand-sculpts wildlife (including her yoga bears) out of wood cellulose and creates wildlife and coastal paintings
Karin started out as a watercolour artist in the early 90's. She and her family lived and worked in the Middle and Far East, there she volunteered as house artist for the Ragunan zoo in Jakarta. After emigrating to Canada in 1997 North American wildlife became her passion. Her painted feather art was a part of the Western Art Show of the Calgary Stampede for around 15 years and has also been featured in TV specials for HGTV and Chinese/Canadian TV.
Currently Karin resides on the Sunshine coast in BC and mostly hand sculpts bear and marine wildlife statues out of wood cellulose, they are coated in her special mix of bronze enamels and antique patinas Her whimsical yoga bears still inspire her and a bronzed version of one of her yoga bears, commissioned by her home town of Gibsons can be seen at the base of the Inglis trail in Gibsons.
Her artwork can also be found in these art galleries across Canada.
Avens Gallery - 101-710 Main Street - Canmore AB T1W 0B9
Matticks Gallery - 109-5325 Cordova Bay Rd - Victoria V8Y 2L3
Koyman Gallery - 1771 St Laurent Blvd - Ottawa K1G 3V4
Effusion Art Gallery -1033 7th Avenue - Invermere V0A 1K0
Chase Art Gallery - 450 Beaconsfield blvd - Beaconsfield QC H9W 4B9
Black Spruce Gallery - 146 Columbia drive - Saskatoon SK S7K 1E9
Bright’s Gallery - 5-190 Weider blvd - BLue Mountains ON L9Y 0V2
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