About James E. Taylor, the painter

James E. Taylor has been drawing and painting ever since he first grasped a crayon in his Hawaiian Islands childhood. Trained in Photography in the U.S.Navy, graduating from A Schools, he served in North Africa, trained aircrews in patrol aircraft, worked with the Seabees in RI during the Vietnam Era, graduated from B School, was the LPO on the USS Yorktown (CVS10) on the last Anti-Sub Cruise of the cold war, and ended his naval career in the Atlantic Fleet Combat Camera Group in Norfolk, Virginia.

Then he went on to a long career as an accomplished photographer, designer and marine artist, for many years in the Boston, Massachusetts, & New England area. He exhibited in many museums, national art shows, and is represented widely in private and public collections. Now retired from the structure of work, he pursues new work painting in North Carolina where it is warm. Several of his paintings of birds have recently been awarded several prestigious prizes in both national and international arenas. Currently, Jim is working on several new paintings of sea birds, NC landscape, portraits, vegetable tableaus and coastal seascapes. The new realism is providing a new and exciting focus for small workshops in his Nepenthe Studio.