As a mixed media artist, Taryn's process involves many layers and a fine balance between structure and play. She refuses to get bored or become mechanical with a painting. Using a wide range of materials opens up her imagination into a whole new playground of possibilities. Gold leaf, paper, resin, sand, corrugated cardboard and other found objects add texture, depth, and excitement to the work, providing both a visual and tactile experience. When creating a composition, she work from all sorts of references; photos, textiles, life, imagination, collage, design. Everything. Taryn loves experimentation and always welcomes new ideas and materials into her work. Each piece is a new adventure.

Taryn spends a lot of time observing people and nature, discovering unexpected brilliant moments of color and emotion along the way. The complexities of real people in raw, candid, everyday, unromanticized, yet beautiful, moments nearly always becomes the focus of her works, even when the figures are poised before backdrops of stunning tropical paradise. The found materials she uses in her paintings juxtapose the fleshy painted figures, creating a comparison between what is human and what is not.