home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Charlene Taylor D'Allessio
- 25 Morehouse Avenue
- Stratford, CT 06497
-
- (203) 377-2968
-
-
- Charlene Taylor hs been painting and illustrating in the field of science fiction and fantasy since 1970. A
- devoted STAR TREK fan, she began attending TREK conventions in 1971 and for seven years was well
- known for her STAR TREK-related artwork. She has been a regular attending artist to science fiction
- Worldcons and northeast regional science fiction conventions since 1973, doing art program
- presentations, exhibiting, and selling her artwork and prints.
-
- A graduate of Syracuse University School of Art, Charlene has a BFA in painting and an MA in Art
- Education and has taught art for 25 years. She often uses science fiction as a means of fostering creativity
- in her students. Also a computer artist, she works on her Macintosh using "Painter" software to create
- Planetscapes. In her Beacon Falls Laurel Ledge School artroom she has an extensive computer art
- program for students.
-
- Being an arctophile for many years, teddy bears became a favorite theme in Char's fantasy art and prints.
- (In 1983, she wrote and illustrated a children's book with a teddy bear/science fiction theme that is as yet
- unpublished). Other favorite themes in her work include Australian subjects enhanced with science or
- fantasy. Three trips to Australia (so far) and she still can't get enough of its unique and fascinating nature
- and endless possibilities for paintings. Other works for which Charlene has become known are her one-
- of-a-kind hand-painted space ties and, most recently, space miniatures on wood and stone. Another
- children's book is slowly taking shape. And she does take art commissions.
-