Commissions

Tait started painting large portraits in Florence, Italy during a study abroad. It was where he fell in love with the process of using oil paints and capturing the human figure.

Tait started making these “SONS” alongside the big portraits when Walker was just a few months old in our garage in Hollywood. The sun metaphor of wild, bright and warm. New life. They were a way to counter the obsessive methods of capturing likenesses of peoples faces in the portraits.

The Salt of the Earth series painted for Judith boutique in Portland, ME drawn from a book of photos by Pierre Gaudard documenting Canadians published in 1971.

A lookbook of watercolors for a season of Vans Vault shoes.