Michele Martin Taylor (born Michele Francisca Martin in 1946 in Los Angeles, California), is an American fine art painter. She is best known for her Post-Impressionist works in oil, watercolor and intaglio. Her subjects are often gardens, water and verdure, but also portraits, figural studies and interiors. Biography and career Taylor studied drawing and painting at the Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles California, California State University, Northridge, California. and Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in fine art, painting and printmaking, and a Bachelor of Science degree in art education. During her formative academic years, she studied with Saul Bernstein, John Henry Rock, and Mark Sponenburgh In 1978, Taylor pursued post-graduate independent study in Paris, France, under Gordon Gilkey, with specific concentration on the works of post-impressionist Pierre Bonnard, focusing on the usage of colour. During the 1980s, Michele Martin Taylor exhibited at regional American Northwest art museums, including the Portland Arts Museum, Oregon, (1982), Bellevue Arts Museum, Washington (1982), and Seattle Art Museum, Oregon (1984). During this period, she also exhibited her work at major Portland, Oregon art galleries, among them, The Lawrence Gallery and Fountain Gallery Exhibitions of paintings created during this period were noted in the Oregon press. Many of these achievements were chronicled in 1984 in her vetted listing in Who's Who in American Art (16th edition). In the early 1990s, Taylor moved to Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, where she opened her own art gallery in Carlisle PA, and showed work there, in other national venues, and continuing to exhibit in Oregon. Her work was featured in Architectural Digest, and she was commissioned to paint the portrait of former Pennsylvania Lt. Governor Mark Singel to hang in the state Capitol. In 1997, Michele Taylor established an art gallery, Taylor & Sons Fine Art, on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. There she exhibited her own and other mid-career artists’ works, and organized art related neighborhood events. She also undertook to mentor and develop emerging artists. In 2002, Taylor, with artist Andrei Kushnir, opened an art gallery in Ellicott City, MD. She continued to exhibit her own works in one-artist exhibits at this venue. In 2004, Taylor and Kushnir opened a second art gallery in the East Village, Manhattan, where they exhibited their own works as well as other New York artists. In 2007, Taylor exhibited new paintings in a one-artist show