About Taralee Guild

Taralee Guild was born in 1984 in Fort Frances and grew up in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Primarily self-taught, her passion for painting began by inheriting her grandmother's paint box. Moving to the West Coast to pursue a career, she has been a full-time artist since graduating from Emily Carr University in 2010 with a BFA in Visual Art. She now lives in Vancouver and has a studio on Granville Island.

Taralee is best known for her hyperrealistic paintings of Airstream trailers, where polished aluminum interrupts a realistic picture plane with a distorted reflection. Also popular, continuing a tradition in Canadian art begun by Emily Carr and the Group of Seven, her large-scale paintings of trees are inspired by the epic rainforest landscapes in British Columbia. Although these two main bodies of work are the bulk of her artistic output, she leaves time to experiment with figures, portraits, and urban scenes. Ever prolific, her paintings continue to be widely acquired in public and private collections.