The colorful, motion-filled abstractions of the Warren painter are an invigorating antidote to the early dark and long nights of winter. Now on view at the BigTown Gallery’s Rochester location, these oils carry the joy and spontaneity of finger-painting that is distinctly all grown up. Taplin describes her works as operatic, and “a loose plot that tightens as it moves along.” Of her process, she writes, “I want it to look like it just happened — a flash of magic.”
