Susan Aaron-Taylor

Susan Aaron-Taylor manifests her dreams into reality. Born from years of formal and solo study into Jungian psychology, Aaron-Taylor's meticulously crafted figures, often animals, speak to the artist's lifelong fascination with dreams. The domestic family pet, hand-felted and fitted with seashells, cabochons, polished bone or even porcupine quills, is transformed with latent meaning that vacillates between the deeply personal and the universal. Here, the collective unconscious is under the spell of the strangely familiar, the almost known, and, ultimately, in their beautifully intimate finished forms, the sublime. In this interview,...