Scotti Taylor is a fine artist based in Oceanside, California, and a mother to four teenagers and young adults. She divides her time between painting and advocacy work. Her art reflects her experiences as a trauma and substance abuse survivor, her roles as a wife and mother, and her responsibilities as a devoted caregiver to her adult intellectually disabled daughter. Taylor’s work also explores the challenges of navigating physical and social barriers in contemporary society, aiming to evoke empathy and compassion. Her primary artistic themes focus on raising awareness for perimenopausal women and illuminating the rare genetic disorder Smith-Magenis Syndrome, with which her oldest daughter was diagnosed at the age of 20 after a lifetime of mis-diagnosis.

Throughout Taylor’s life, art has remained a constant outlet and passion. Starting from a young age studying closely with public school art teachers, then studying Studio Art at the University of Texas at Austin, she finally immersed herself in the field of Graphic Design with The Art Institute of San Diego. She channeled her skills into careers that allowed her to explore the intersections of her creativity, including her time as the Art Director for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography where she specialized in Scientific Illustration and won National Awards for the monthly member’s magazine she designed for the Birch Aquarium at Scripps. After nearly two decades of dedicating herself to her family, she has returned to the studio. Painter, creative, and advocate, Taylor’s artistic practice shares her story as a survivor of trauma and substance abuse, role as a wife and mother, devoted caregiver, and as a woman navigating the physical and social inaccessibilities of today’s society in a way that evokes empathy and compassion. 

SHOWS

RC Gallery Chicago (Chicago, IL) “Spirituality in Art”, October 2024

Covet Gallery (Oceanside, CA) Group Show, April 2024

HDMV Gallery (New York) Group Show, March 2024

Ashton Gallery (San Diego) Group Show, August, February, April 2024

Avanti Art Gallery, “Best of 2023” Online Group Show, 2024

Martha Spak Gallery (Washington DC) October 2023

Visionary Art Collective, Online Group Show, 2023

Nicoleta Gallery (Berlin) Group Show, 2023

Art on 30th (San Diego) Group Show, August, November 2023

Art Gallery (Mission Viejo) Group Show, August & October 2023