B. Taylor Harrison









The “B.” is for Brookelyn

But you can call me Taylor. I'm an artist, educator, designer, and jack-of-all-trades based out of Greenville, South Carolina.

I was raised barefoot along the briar patches and creek beds of Tennessee and the Carolinas, and have learned the value of hard work, storytelling, family cooking, and sun-warmed tomatoes.

I love meeting new people and am available for freelance work, collaboration, and studio visits. Feel free to poke me for a chat! 

Until then – stay curious.


Experience 
à la glance


Adjunct Professor of Art

SCSA Dept. of Art + Design
2023–Present 

Fine Artist

ArtBomb Studios
2021–Present

Freelance/Contract Graphic Designer + Illustrator

Sidewalk Studio, World Finance, et al.
2021–Present


Skills

Branding, Education, Ideation, Illustration, Print, Research, Web Design


Tools

Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Lightroom

Figma, CSS, HTML


Exhibitions


Dreamscapes Juried Show

Greenville, SC

2025
ArtBomb Spring Show

Greenville, SC
2025

Origin Painting & Drawing Invitational Alumni Showcase 

Anderson University, SC
2025


Awards

Dwain Skinner Open Studios Fellow

Metropolitan Arts Council
Greenville, SC
2024

School-Awarded Scholarship

Clark University, MA
2024

Strauss-Mosse Merit Award

Clark University, MA
2024


A Random Fact

since you made it this far

In 1959, Jimmy Stewart and his wife Gloria smuggled Yeti remains – a finger, to be exact – out of India as a favor to his pal Peter Byrne. With the assistance of Gloria’s lady luggage, the Hollywood partners-in-crime were able to successfully transport the relic to the U.K.                 




Last Updated 07.08.25

Almanac




For the 
back pocket

 Relativity: The Special and General Theory
Jack Whitten: The Messenger
Dust
In Praise of Shadows
Joy: 100 Poems
The Weight of Glory
Faux Pas.
Art + Faith
Walking on Water
Ninth Street Women
Fractals
Pacific Art
The Unseen Realm
Category Crisis
Monster Project
Giambattista Bodoni: His Life and His World


August

Don’t mind me–I’m currently learning how to stitch Peter Pan’s shadow back on.

Duff & loam.

The older I get, the more I realize how unrealistic my childhood expectations were. I suppose one of the downsides of reading tales from Narnia or Middle Earth is that one must inevitably be humbled by the fact that the forests of the Real World are not boobytrapped with boggles or goblins, but invisible obstacle courses of happy little spiderwebs.

The images linger like photographs I never took: the Mother Goose jar of frosted oatmeal cookies; the BB gun standing watch over the kitchen by the fridge. For the life of me, I can’t recall ever seeing it in action. I can’t recall ever seeing the neighbor’s cat come near the bird feeder either, for that matter.


July

They smelled like fresh air and adventure, and they whisked it into the car as they hustled in off the curb. The scarf they brought me smelled like that too – like the squeeze she gave me when I dropped them off at the house. The heat has been brutal here, but I bundled the wool around me as soon as I got home.
It’s folded back up in its little paper bag now. I hope it still smells when I rediscover it for winter.

After nearly 30 years of summer suns, tonight’s was the first that seemed to melt in the sky – butter-soft, dripping off the oaks.

Standing on the roof – sun above, tar below, sweat everywhere in between – I felt the breeze still for the gliding swifts, the building sigh, gently, beneath my feet.


June

The bobby pin hit the public bathroom floor. 
And there it stayed.

Just a momentary glance – surely, Earth and Time will stay steady in your absence. You return to find hands folded, colors faded, memories clinging to every surface, like mold. Did the glass shatter or are those — bones?
The residue of the senses develops into the stubbornest stains.

I need to say it – more for me than for you, so please don’t be offended:
I am not my website.

May

There are seasons when I hesitate to call myself a painter. “Gardener,” on the other hand, and for whatever reason, seems more harmless. I suppose slinging dirt and dung carries less expectation than slinging paint and turpentine. If not less, at least different. Isn’t that silly?

April

As light skips across billowing shades, paper quivers.


October

The murder lies stamped into the scarred and swollen clay, sawdust pooling like blood, seedling spawn scattered.

September

The birds abandoned their gnarly post, casting their bodies against the blue – gravity shattered by their silhouettes.

March

A love like starlight – shimmery, captivating, reeling, reveling – aching bewitchment in spite of the cold. Wonder bursts into a blinding streak. The night swallows me whole. I drift in her depths.

July

What a perfectly dreary day. I wish I had savored it more. Running down for the mail in the rain was simply fantastic.


June

Soft wrinkles and Southern roads, evidence of frequent travelers – meanders and belov’d expressions.


January

The muddy pigment between expansive future and vivacious past, the streaking blaze in our ever-shifting memories. The yellows and greens and pinks and greys nestled between the setting sun and oncoming night – the twilight, the becoming.

Each moment, though seemingly static and still, is actively becoming the past even as we become our future selves. We know who we once were, the backroads we once haunted; but who we will be is rooted in the moment, the static, the still. That is the essence – the essence of becoming.

December

The shadow blinked – once without thinking then twice with a smile. It stepped from its corner, a generous gesture, but still to be questioned considering the wily flick of its tail.


November

I miss the days when we would sit on the swings, heads thrown back, falling into the sky.


A familiar space – reflective, uncertain. The delicate moment at the koi pond’s surface, crumbs kissing its face, colors emerging, mouths gaping.


October

An endless reel of memory and blinding color, billboards and passersby, plastered with voice-overs and one or two soundtracks, conversations from last night’s dinner on the patio; and red yarn, strung from building to building to billboard to person to color to noise–everything tangled and connected somehow. Standing in the center of it all, eyes out of focus, every detail meanders by in turn, intricate and precious, then all at once undefined. Eyes into focus. Daisy grin.



© Brookelyn Taylor Harrison 2025