Pt. 1
Growing up in the idle Boston suburbs in the 1990's, I often had little to do but explore the woods and neighborhoods around me. Over time, I grew fascinated by the lives lived behind closed doors, the world I could not see. I would drift into imagining stories. I wondered.
I made a career in documentary cinematography and video journalism before re-evaluating. After fifteen years I had helped tell thousands of stories, yet not one was imagined, they had all been real, sometimes hauntingly. My work sank into the sea of social media daily, sometimes hourly. I began to suspect I had no real creativity left in me. Could I still imagine, or simply synthesize? My wonder had begun to dim. It was this gnawing feeling that precipitated a major switch. I moved with my wife and dogs from NYC to middle-of-nowhere northern Vermont, started rehabbing an overgrown apple orchard, and transitioned to painting full-time.
Pt. 2
The Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, referred to as the NEK, is an environment rich with natural beauty and hard living. I've traveled cross-country, never venturing to the highway, more times than I can now count. The NEK, like nowhere else, displays the splendour of American wildness and its seeming decline, of structure and nature, of curious decisions and concrete rationality. In each painting I attempt to convey my own sense of place and wonder, and hopefully, awaken yours.
Do you like my work, have an idea for a piece, or want to have something commissioned? Please reach out to me! taylordelench@gmail.com or text, serious inquiries please.
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