About Jacqueline Taylor

Jacqueline Taylor is a contemporary British painter based in Greater Manchester. Working predominantly in oils, she paints the people, places and small social moments that make up everyday life.

Her paintings often begin with something easily overlooked: a couple in a pub, a night out, a familiar street, a family memory or the quiet distance between people sharing the same space. Taylor is interested in what sits beneath these ordinary scenes — relationships, memory, belonging, loneliness, humour and the things that are left unsaid.

Rather than explaining a fixed story, she leaves space for the viewer to bring their own experience to the work. Figures can feel caught mid-thought or mid-conversation, turning an apparently familiar moment into something more ambiguous and cinematic.

Manchester and the North West recur throughout her work, but the paintings are ultimately about people: how we live alongside one another, what we remember, and how ordinary moments become part of our personal and collective histories.

Taylor’s work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and HOME’s Manchester Open, and featured in Grayson’s Art Club. Thursday 8pm is held in the permanent collection of Manchester Art Gallery.