I’m Teresa.

A gritty urban landscape painter.

My work is messy, and imperfect...just like me.

I work in oil on top of newspaper covered canvas because of the texture, depth, and chatter the newspaper creates below the surface.

I paint what I see, without any prettification. It is what it is, and it’s perfect that way.

The running themes in my work are resilience, grit, and self-determination.

It doesn’t matter the hand we are dealt, it’s what we decide to do with it.

A Little More About Me

I quit my job back in 2011 with a hope and dream that I could finally make a living as an artist while I raised my 2 very small at the time boys.

Now, they are big and teenagery and I will follow up with some recent photos of them in my stories over on IG.

I have done some pretty cool things over the past 14 years.

I’m deathly afraid of heights. But somehow I’ve painted several very large murals requiring some really high heights. Including a giant 1950s gas station inside of a huuuuge garage that houses many vintage Chevys.

I’ve traveled all over and have worked with some of the most amazing people on ridiculously cool projects and commissions.

I have never sky dived, but I want to.

I’ve gotten two tattoos in Costa Rica.

If I had to pick one word that would describe me most, it would be “unfinished”.

I closed my downtown studio last year and now work out of a studio in my home. If I’m being honest, I hate working from home and look forward to opening up a new studio down the road.