Taryn Sheppard is a Vancouver-based visual artist and architect (M.Arch, University of Toronto, 2010; MFA, Emily Carr University, 2020) originally from Newfoundland & Labrador. Her painting practice draws on architecture as a subject, creating large-scale oil works that explore how built space encodes memory, emotion, and human presence. Using physical and digital models, she constructs fictional environments that become sources for paintings characterized by ambiguity of scale, light, and atmosphere. Influenced by surrealism, expressionist cinema, and science fiction, her work treats architecture as a psychological landscape. Sheppard has exhibited widely, received multiple awards, and teaches as sessional faculty at Emily Carr University.