Education
Tait attended the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts School of Art and Design from 1949 to 1953, completing an undergraduate degree.
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Sylvia Tait
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Her instructors included Arthur Lismer, Jacques de Tonnancour, Marian Scott, Eldon Grier, Gordon Webber and William Armstrong. He had long-standing connections in Mexico (including with Diego Rivera) and they spent extended periods in San Miguel de Allende in the late 1950s. They moved to British Columbia in 1968 and Tait set up her studio in West Vancouver.
Tait has exhibited in Canada, Mexico and Ecuador since the 1950s.
In Vancouver, the Bau-Xi Art Gallery has regularly had shows of her work since 1977. Among her influences was the Abstract Expressionism art movement.
Although her early paintings were representational her mature and current works on canvas and on paper are purely abstract, showing a complex use of layered high key colour. Her work is inspired by classical music
Her work Aquascapes was installed at the West Vancouver Pool in 2004, and fully restored in 2013.
