Teresa Poole

Teresa Poole

Stroud, Gloucestershire , United Kingdom

About Teresa Poole

Teresa poole is a decorative artist from the uk. She specialises in oriental and Japanese art having been a furniture restorer and painter in the 1980s. She uses these traditional and more modern techniques to produce stunning gilded panels on canvas and on wall murals . She uses rabbit skin gesso, 23carat gold leaf , mother of pearl and Dutch gold and silver leaf. She still paints murals but often on canvas. Her work also uses her photography and mixed media pieces using her own hand applied techniques often with metal leaf to produce stunning landscapes . A hybrid of contemporary and traditional but always an orientalist in composition, image and heart.

Education:

Alevel in art
Trained by international designer Thomas Messel in the 1980s in traditional trompe l'oiel and grisaille painting to a very high standard, paint effects, gilding and marbling.
Restoration and reproduction of oriental screens and furniture in Notting hill London.
Murals and paint effects on the QE2, in Italy , the Hilton Cyprus , various commissions in Florida Fort Lauderdale and Boca rotan , Ibiza, amsterdam to name a few.

Events:

Work for Cunard ships, numerous and private homes in the UK and internationally.
Murals and interiors paintings in calcot manor in gloucestershire
Murals at cotswold grange hotel cheltenham
Murals bastion court Worcestershire
Various galleries in outer London by agent Vanessa de Souza .

Exhibitions:

Agora gallery New York
Parallax exhibition Chelsea town hall London
Ran and painted in gallery studio in Vence south France
Sit select Festival Stroud
Open studio Stroud valley arts .
Kendrick st gallery Stroud ,
Wild fowl trust slimbridge .