Today we’d like to introduce you to Taylor Blackshear.
Hi Taylor, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
I got my start in painting when I was very young, my grandmother hosted art classes for some of her friends, and when us grandkids were around, we got to join in on the classes. I was never really good at following direction in art; I was always putting my own spin on every painting that we did. I have kept up with my painting my whole life; I painted the walls of my high school, where my art teacher changed my view on art overall; from that time to now, I have pushed my own boundaries of art and grown my skills. I’ve always been able to make ends meet by making a custom painting or creating something new out of something old. I opened a shop where I refurbished furniture into art pieces, after some years of bad luck, I found myself a single mom of a toddler and was all on my own. I decided I would start painting murals as a way to help pay bills on the side of my main job and make a better life for my son while still being able to spend most of my time with him. It is my goal to see my mural business become the only job I need so that I will be able to spend all of my extra time raising my boy.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back, would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Smooth is something I only use to explain brush strokes! I have a habit of getting myself into draining situations; years of being a people pleaser set me back on life in general. But this new phase of life for me and my son has been just as rewarding as it has been challenging. And that is an exchange I can work with.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I paint murals, canvases, shoes, jeans, windows, etc.
There isn’t something I can’t do if I don’t know how I study and learn it to be able to give my customers exactly what they are looking for in an art piece.
Where do you see things going in the next 5-10 years?
Physical art is becoming lost in the age of technology (not that I don’t LOVE technology), but painting and drawing, and sculpting is all going to become a lost art at some point with the way the world is advancing. Painting murals and custom pieces is my way of keeping an art form I love alive.
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