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Mary Taylor (born 1948) is a New Zealand artist and children's author.

Background

Mary Taylor was born in Devonport, Auckland in 1948. She was educated at the University of Auckland and Massey University.

Career

Formerly a teacher, Taylor has worked as a professional artist since 1983. Taylor is known for etchings and paintings. She follows a traditional process in her etchings, involving nitric acid, zinc plate, a manual etching press, and hand colouring each work. Her paintings primarily use acrylic and oils. Taylors works are grounded in realism and predominantly of New Zealand's flora and fauna.

Taylor has exhibited with the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts and internationally, in New York and Beijing, as part of exhibitions of New Zealand art.

She is the author of Old Blue: The Rarest Bird in the World, winner of the AIM Children's Book Awards non-fiction award in 1994.

References

1. "Taylor, Mary". Find New Zealand Artists. Archived from the original on 4 December 2023. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
2. ^ "Mary Taylor". Flagstaff Gallery. Archived from the original on 12 April 2024. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
3. "Mary Taylor". Art by the Sea. Archived from the original on 30 November 2023. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
4. "Artists exhibited with New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts". Find New Zealand Artists. Archived from the original on 19 January 2023. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
5. Kay, Robin; Eden, Tony (1983). Portrait of a Century: The History of the N.Z. Academy of Fine Arts, 1882-1982. Wellington, N.Z.: Millwood. ISBN 0908582609. OCLC 12440180.
6. Taylor, Mary (1993). Old Blue The Rarest Bird in the World. Auckland, N.Z.: Ashton Scholastic. ISBN 1869431081. OCLC 31233086.
7. "AIM Children's Book Awards - Non-Fiction". Christchurch City Libraries. Archived from the original on 6 July 2022. Retrieved 16 October 2017.

Further reading

Artist files held for Mary Taylor are held at:

• Angela Morton Collection, Takapuna Library
• E. H. McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
• Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena
• Te Aka Matua Research Library, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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