Teresa Knight

I started painting and drawing with my sisters to pass rainy days at the family cottage.

Drawing and painting saw me through teenage-hood, after which I landed in Toronto’s art scene in the early 80s. Working in artist-run spaces to support myself, I mostly painted portraits of my contemporaries.
A 1987 trip to Australia and Indonesia to learn about different ‘artviews’ took a year of wonderfully spent time and led to my volunteering to teach art in Sierra Leone, Africa in 1990. I liked teaching art and so returned to university to get a B.A. in Studio Arts and Bachelor of Education in Art from the University of British Columbia.
In order to allow for more painting time, after many years teaching and painting in Vancouver, I moved to the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island.
One of my life goals is to help animals, and so I donate some paintings and prints to raise money for them.

B.A. in Studio Art from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
B.Ed. in Art also from UBC

Teresa exhibits and teaches in her studio/gallery in Union Bay

2016 - Curatpr - Non-Human Persons, and
2014 – Curator – Animals in Our Humanscape, MacMillan Arts Centre, Parksville, BC

2014- Teresa Knight– Paintings –Oceanside Community Arts Council, Parksville,BC

2013 – Invited Artist, Bowser Art and Garden Tour, Bowser, BC

2013 – Milner Gardens, Qualicum Beach, BC – participating artist - juried

2013, 2014- Teresa Knight’s Students‘ Art Work – Zocalo Cafe, Courtenay, BC

2012 – ClayZone Gallery, Vancouver – pantings exhibit

2011 – 2015 – Gallery Artist - Mark Penney Gallery, Ucluelet, BC

2010 – Cedar Corner Art Gallery, Tofino, BC- Twilight; Paintings by Teresa Knight, featured in the anteroom.

2008, 2009 – Participating Artist, Local Colours, Courtenay, B.C.

2008, 2009 – Participating Artist, Originals Only, Comox, B.C.

2008 – Exhibiting Artist, Nautical Days, Comox, B.C.

2008 - Member Artist, Woodland Gardens Juried Show

2008 – “Art that Barks” – group show, Heaventree Gallery, Vancouver