PHTaylor Gallery
Contemporary Impressionist Painter

1615 Charlotte Hwy
Fairview, NC 28730
828-348-4732 ext. 5
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Commissions
We are happy to work with you to create a work of art just for you. Consider a beautiful mountain scene painted on location, a painting of your own beautiful view, or even a still-life of items that have a special meaning to you. Call us for more details.
Painting Classes
Learn to see the way the Impressionists did. Learn to depict light with the use of color. We will teach you all of these things in our weekly painting classes and workshops. Call us for more details or look at our class schedule.
Charles Hawthorne
said "Everyting is Beautiful Under the Sun", visit our studios and galleries to see why this is so. www.willowwispfarmstudios.com
Miniature Painting by PHTaylor
we have an interesting selection of original miniature paintings and original reproductions of famous impressionists.
Large Studio Paintings by PHTaylor
Check out these larger works painted from smal plein air studios.
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Plein air landscape painting is the specialty of contemporary impressionist painter, PHTaylor. Paintings in Taylor's oil painting gallery were painted in and around Asheville, NC where she lives and does business at Willow Wisp Farm Studios.
phtaylor-"willow wisp farm studios and gallery "-impressionist-"plein air" landscape-paintng-art PHTaylor has studied pastel painting from numerious nationally recognized pastel instuctors; Ben Konis, Doug Dawson, William Hosner, Richard McKinley, Ann Templeton, Bob Rohm, and Susan Ogilvie to name a few. Taylor's impressionist plein air pastel paintings are a mixture of what she learned from these instructors and the Cape Cod School of Art combined.
Pastel Gallery
PHTaylor started traveling outside of the USA when she was only five years old. As a result of those early years of traveling, she still has the travel bug. Her Art Trek Gallery contains impressionist plein air landscape paintings she has done during her travels, both in the USA and overseas.
Art Treks
phtaylor-"willow wisp farm studios" impressionist-painting-art-stilllife Assuming one day the plein air gear will get too heavy to lug around, PHTaylor hs been studying still-life painting with a number of reputable instructors. Her Still-life gallery gives you a sampling of what she has learned.
Still-life Gallery
phtaylor-"willow wisp farm studios and gallery"-impressionist-"plein air"-painting-art-pastel Thirty years in Saudi Arabia, and a lifetime of memories bring you these images from another day and another time in PHTaylor's life.
Desert-Reflections



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"I paint colorful
scintillating
oil and pastel
impressionist paintings
for my enjoyment
and yours."
Peggy Horne Taylor began painting in 1980, today she is devoted to painting oil and pastel impressionistic works in both regular size and miniature. She lived in Saudi Arabia for 30 years and many of her works are inspired by the Middle East and her travels. Formerly the Director of Willow Wisp Farm Studios, a small art school in Fairview, North Carolina; specializing in plein-air painting, Taylor currently operates her studio and gallery with the same name. Her works are available at the Design Gallery in Burnsville, NC, The Frame Shoppe and Gallery in Asheville, NC and Willow Wisp Farm Studios & Gallery in Fairview, NC. She is also a featured artist on the igoogle gadget "Art and Artist Landscape Paintings."

Taylor began her study of impressionism in 1991 with Lois Griffel at the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown, MA, going back many times to study with Griffel and other instructors who taught the traditional technique of the Cape Cod School of Art. She has also studied with a number of other prominent artist/instructors including: Tom Browning, Robert Johnson, Ann Templeton, Bob Rohm, Camille Przewodek, Charles Sovek, Ben Konis, Kenn Backhaus, Doug Dawson, Gay Faulkenberry, M Kathryn Massey, Roberta Remy, Richard McKinley, Zoltan Szabo, and others.

Taylor is an invited painting advisor of the Highlands Art Union and a signature member of the Western North Carolina Plein Air Painters. Taylor has received many awards including “Best of Show ,” “Who’s Who in the South,” “Who’s Who in America”. The highlight of her career was being asked to participate in a private exhibition for His Royal Highness Prince Abdullah ibn Turki Al Saud in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia. She is in the book Best of NC Artists 2005. Her works can be found in the corporate collections of Harbor Enterprises in Syros, Greece; the Carver Bible College in Atlanta, GA.; the Carolina Mountain Land Conservatory, NC; The Lobster Trap in Asheville, NC, the City of Sparks, Nevada; and private collections in the USA, Saudi Arabia, Australia, England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Canada, India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Lebanon, and the Philippines.

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