Taylor Manoles

Taylor Manoles is an oil painter who lives in Bend, Oregon. Born in Arizona and raised in Minnesota, she has inhabited many different types of landscapes. Her love of the outdoors and desire to paint drove her to pursue an art education degree at North Dakota State University in Fargo, North Dakota. After teaching middle school art for one year, Manoles pursued her artwork full time. Her artwork explores themes of faith and the human experience through contemporary landscapes. Painting is both a cathartic practice and how she celebrates and remembers the goodness in the world around her. She enjoys showing her work locally, across the Pacific Northwest, and through online platforms. In 2023, her Painted Hills piece won the Curator’s Choice Award at the High Desert Museum’s show, Art in the West.