Teresa’s work is rooted in the nature and effects of landscape and seascape through changing emotions, movement, light and colour. Living in Cornwall and visiting the coast paths and moorlands has filled her sketchbooks with drawings. The visual language used reflects the constant connection with the elements through daily walks. From initial response to a subject, after observational drawing, the imagination takes over and instinct and intuition produce compelling canvases which in the end are as much about the paint on the surface as about the place that inspired them.

“I do not draw in the landscape I draw from it. After experimenting with some initial painting, the deconstructing of memory takes place in the studio where the journey continues with the sanding and scraping of paint, the layering of more paint, the gouging and drawing into the built-up surface until everything makes sense of the place where I have been.”