Teresa Poole

Teresa Pooles distinctive blend of japanese and western influences is taken from a lifetime of random memories, dreams and thoughts, sometimes which she has painted over the years and rearranged to bring an order out of chaos rather like a museum of her mind…
She works organically starting with an inky watery abstract flooding metal leaf and verdigris oxidation using Sumi ink and handmade pigment inks on gilded metal leaf, then taking the image to a more traditional composition .
She says she sometimes feel more a conductor in an orchestra of colour .. leading the paint but never completely in control of where it’s going .. but always in the hope that it leads to another magical world.
Poole’s work is a reflection of memories and emotions, of beautiful Japanese screens which she painted and restored in Notting Hill london. Places, experiences glimpsed or visited, sometimes in the flesh but often in the imagination. Producing a medley of vivid coloured but dream like ethereal images of floating running water and nature on glowing metal leaf and silks using inks , gesso and patination

After completing foundation year at Cheltenham college of art
Apprenticeship with renowned designer Thomas Messel

2025 solo exhibition spring gallery Cheltenham
2025 Summer exhibition open call green and stone gallery sold entrant
Rodmarton manor crafts alive joint exhibition Victoria works studios
Sixteen gallery joint exhibition Cheltenham

Exhibition at Victoria works 10yr anniversary
Exhibition the view gallery royal wotton basset
Exhibited sixteen gallery Cheltenham U.K.
2023 joint exhibition nature in bloom liberation gallery Brighton. U.K.
2023 open studio in Stroud Gloucestershire SVA
2023 represented by liberation art gallery Brighton
Participates in Bath contemporary art fair U.K. at green park in bath
Teaching copper and Dutch metal leafing and patination layering with Venetian plastering techniques in hackney london
2022Joint exhibition sixteen gallery Cheltenham
Represented by luminati
Lacquer Swedish sofa range for lorfords sofas
Bath contemporary artfair 2022 and 2023
2121 Broadway contemporary exhibition runner up.
2021 Joined Victoria works studios Chalford Stroud
Sitselect textile festival open studios yearly 2017-2022
2021Joint exhibition subscription rooms Stroud
Murals and paint finishes at the mahal Cheltenham and park hotel
2011 solo exhibition slimbridge wildfowl trust
2010 Art residency 5 months in Vence...