I have always been touched by the awareness that all life, animate and inanimate, is living, changing, intelligent energy. Even as a small child I felt drawn to share this understanding with others.
As I progressed through life, this resonating energy became more profound in relationship, work, and service. I began focusing on the healing process of energy work and how I could serve others with this knowledge. This awareness and inspiration flowed into my love of art and painting. After the death of my 4 year old son, my focus and artistic calling shifted me into an awareness of deeper connection and of the integral role of how the paintings are a frequency and resonance of a much greater spirit and life available. (see memoriums for more info)
This bridging of spirituality and the fusion of color and movement have characterized my paintings for the past 30 years. In order to convey this sense of luminosity and light I have embraced a very transparent “glazing technique”. I apprenticed with Marika Popovits a world renowned Hungarian visionary artist. Under her tutelage I was educated in the time honored techniques of the “Old Masters.”
I then began to investigate leaving the traditional motifs and began to explore contemporary images in the work through adding various layers of color and medium. This divine process allows me to create transparent applications of color, which I call, “veiled oil.” 15-20 layers of very thin glazes are built up which adds the resonance of illumination from within. I embrace the essence of this way of painting as it returns me to the alchemy of full creation and the meditation that exists when one is centered in this process.
My travels to India, Italy and Mexico, and my native Southwest, have deeply influenced my life and my continuing journey as a painter. My interior landscapes have led me to work with transformative energies having to do with rebirth, celebration, and the inner eye of transformation and exploration. The images flow from a myriad of channels, archetypal, direct experience and interior musings. This form of work has given me both the freedom of sacred expression and the ability to help others discover their creative divine nature.
My inspiration comes from the playfulness of color and movement in Marc Chagall’s paintings, as well as the mystical nature of William Blake’s work and the 12th century illuminated manuscripts of the abbess Hildegard Von Bingen.
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Publication “Cezanne’s Carrot,” Santa Fe, New Mexico. Denver Performing Arts Center “Windows to the Divine,”
Women Artists of Boulder, and the Gustav Mahler Symposium, CU Boulder. ISSEEM (International Society for Subtle Energies) symposium in Colorado, cover art for the book, Return to Wholeness.
Selected as one of the participating artists to be profiled in the book, Vision, Passion & Purpose: Artists as World Changers, Renee Phillips.
2012 “Another Angel Gets Its Wings” Manhattan Arts International Celebrate the Healing Power of Art Online exhibition www.manhattanarts.com Teresa’s work was one of 44 works chosen by the jurors from more than 800 entries submitted by artists in 24 countries.
Artists were invited to submit images of their art in all styles and media that fit the theme, “Positive Art that Lifts The Spirit.” The three jurors for this competition included Renée Phillips, author, curator and director of Manhattan Arts International, Edward Rubin, NY based arts writer/curator, and Nancy Reyner, Artist/Author/Instructor. “After a comprehensive review of more than 800 entries, the jurors selected 44 outstanding artist’s images.”
One of the founders of the Bereavement Artists group. Gallery director of CHHC, Community Holistic Health Center in Lafayette Colorado.
Teresa has exhibited her work in multiple venues including several private collections throughout the United States, South America and Europe. She resides in the beautiful high desert valley of Crestone Colorado and is a member of Crestone Artists group www.crestoneartists.com and in 2024 has been featured in Voyage Denver magazine.
