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Biography
Taylor Wick is a multimedia artist and educator whose practice bridges traditional drawing and contemporary media. With a background in visual communication, 3D visualization, and game design, her work explores memory, resilience, and the emotional landscapes shaped by personal experience. Rooted in over two decades of colored-pencil practice and complemented by stylized storytelling, Taylor’s visual language emphasizes introspection, narrative, and the quiet endurance found in lived struggle; particularly relating to the process of self-understanding.
In addition to her artistic practice, Taylor works in the steel-fabrication industry as a digital artist, translating complex ideas into clear visual experiences through design, visualization, and animation. Taylor believes art can help people, and concepts, feel seen, and understood.
Artist Statement
I make art because it’s cheaper than therapy and far more socially acceptable than yelling into the void. My work circles themes like memory, anxiety, and that delightful emotional tug-of-war between “I’m totally fine” and “I might spontaneously combust.” I like to think of it as visual existentialism with good line work.
I bounce between colored pencil and digital tools; whichever medium best supports the crisis of the month. Expect stylized characters, moody symbolism, and the occasional dramatic animal because sometimes the only way to process human emotions is through a fox or a wolf having a moment.
Ultimately, I create work for people who feel deeply but still show up, laugh, and keep going. If my art makes someone exhale and think, “Oh good, it’s not just me,” then mission accomplished.
Work Statement
This body of work explores the quiet breaking points within Silent Hill 2’s most vulnerable scenes; James confronting his reflection before he can face his truth, the symbolism of Angela and the knife she holds, and Maria’s sharp assertion of self against projection. Each moment is suspended in chiaroscuro, where shadow holds denial and light forces recognition. These pieces focus on the fragile space between collapse and acceptance: truth waits in the dark until it can no longer be ignored, grief becomes heavy, and identity strains under expectation.
In My Restless Dreams Colored Pencil
11” x 14” (framed) / 9” x 12” (unframed)
2025
$150
The opening mirror scene is James suspended between who he was and what he refuses to face. It represents a man searching himself for certainty, truth, or a version of himself he can live with. The mirror becomes a boundary: on one side, denial and the fragile fantasy that brought him to Silent Hill; on the other, guilt, memory, and the truth he already knows but cannot yet acknowledge.
Oh, it’s you…
Colored Pencil
11” x 14” (framed) / 9” x 12” (unframed)
2025
$150
This piece draws from Angela’s moment of stillness in Silent Hill; lying down not in peace, but in exhaustion. It reflects the quiet collapse that happens when pain becomes too heavy to carry, and rest feels like the only way to survive the next breath. This work explores the weight of unspoken trauma, the numbness that follows overwhelming internal conflict, and the fragile, complicated moment when rest feels indistinguishable from giving up.
I’m not your Mary
Colored Pencil
11” x 14” (framed) / 9” x 12” (unframed)
2025
$150
This moment represents James’s internal struggle not with loss alone, but with responsibility. It is the point where the fantasy can no longer protect him from the truth about his actions and the flawed, deeply human ways he tried to cope. The chiaroscuro in the scene underscores this fracture: light exposing reality, shadow clinging to denial.