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Teri Gortmaker Fine Art
 


 Biography

 

 

Teri grew upon a farm in southeast Texas.  In 1967 she came to Colorado receiving her BA from CU in1970.  When her youngest daughter started school she came across Betty Edwards book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and has been drawing and painting ever since. 

 

“My career has suffered from blank spaces over the years, as often happens with mothers, wives and women in general. But I have always found my way back to the place I am most cPomfortable and productive . . .painting in pastel and painting from life. I continue to take classes from artists I admire because there is always more to learn and a higher level to achieve.”

 

She has been a signature member of the New York city’s Pastel Society of America since 1993, won awards and been juried into the exhibitions of Salmagundi Artists, N.Y., Knickerbocker Artists, N.Y. International Association of Pastel Artists, and Scottsdale Artists School “Best and Brightest”, among others. She is also and associate member of Women Artists of the West and Impressionists Society of America.

 

                                                  Juried Shows

 


2010      Colorado Governor's 

                                Invitational

                                 Loveland, Co

Plein Air Painters of Colorado

  Denver, CO

 

Pastel Society of America

  New York, NY 

 


2009                        Pastel Society of Arkansas

           Little Rock  

                 American Impressionist Society 

                    Denver, CO

                  Pastel Society of America 

                   New York City

                 Pastel Society of the West Coast 

                  Santa Clara, CA

                Nomadas Del Art

                  Dallas, TX


2008                      Pastel Society of New York,

                     New York, NY

Pastel Society of America

   Signature Members Show

17th National AANC Exhibition

Plein Air Painters of Colorado, 

   Denver, CO

Estes Park Plein Air Exhibition

   and Competition

Golden Triangle Plein Air Festival 

   Denver, Co

2007                      Pastel Society of Cape Cod, Cape Cod, MA

Mile High National Exhibition, Aspen, CO

Pastel Society of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Pastel Society of America, New York, NY



 

 

Phone Teri @ 303-499-3338