During the seven weeks of ‘Entangled’ we’ll focus on individual artists here on our blog. ‘some things looming’ is pleased to introduce: Teresa Shields
Fraternal Twins
I work intuitively, inspired by the natural world around me with all of its crazy patterns, circles, pod shapes and patterns-on-patterns. I love color. I can make an environment sing with color. I can imagine colors in my head and transform a space. I see color before I start any piece of art or project. Color is the thing that makes me get off my chair and get at it. A long time ago, I worked with collage, cutting images out of magazines and making small compositions. They felt to me at the time like a pianist practicing scales. I made them every day for two years and they taught me a lot about color, mostly about what happens when one color is placed next to another. People tend to be afraid of making a mistake with color, but there are no wrong answers. You just have to see what happens when it is next to another color, and make an informed decision based on what you see or like or feel.
Frenemies
Introvert