Artist Roster

N Taylor Collins has been an artist since she made a collage in Miss Ewell’s kindergarten class when she was 5. Her main focus initially was folk art scenes that capture the way of life in Delaware and to a greater extent Delmarva. After studying with Jack Lewis, a long -time WPA era artist who specialized in Plein air painting, she has focused on Plein air and has been active in many Plein air events around the area. Most recently she won the People’s Choice Award in 2025 Paint  Historic Old New Castle. In 2024, she won the Berlin Maryland Mayor’a award in the Worcester County Plein Air event.  She helped found a weekly Plein air group, she participates in many regional and local painting events, and has exhibited widely over the years. She was a founder of Dover Art League efforts to establish as a viable 501(c) (3) and helped in the education area and funding to secure a permanent site. She served on the Dover Mayor’s Art Council, the Artist Colony Main Street project and as National President of National League of American Pen Women in Washington DC. She is also a published writer and has been the owner of Parke Green Galleries for many years in downtown Dover on The Green.

Taylor is also a writer and is active in her Cape Cod writing group as well a participant in local readings. She has studied with various writers over the years beginning with Sheila Bender, Natalie Goldberg, and most recently her second-wave hero, Marge Piercy. It was the group that met with Piercy in 2021 that she still meets with monthly. 

Taylor paints a series she calls “First Flags” as her gallery is located on such a historic spot. All flag paintings painted here are a tribute to Delaware being the first state to ratify the constitition and being so dedicated to the cause of freedom. We see visitors from all over the world and she is delighted to give them something of a historic nature. It is not often a person gets to stand where we officially began as the First State in this United effort. They it was Elizabeth Batelle’s cursive note that led historians to discover where that event actually occurred is so fun!  First flags have been popular since she started doing them as many state capital visitors like something totally unique and original as they travel around the country.