"She's a process-oriented artist who deploys adept painterly techniques and deft compositions
to create her complicated and highly intelligent images... the metaphysical is also at play in her studio practices."

-Gilbert A. Bouchard, The Edmonton Journal, June 2006

The essence of my creativity is profoundly influenced from living for 24 years in a natural rural environment,
where the understanding of space, light and the natural cycle of life pervades all sensorial experiences, lending
insights to perceptions and creative acts. My Buddhist practice & study and my personal connection with both the
natural and spirit worlds also encourage those elusive moments where personal myth and reality occasionally merge
and a glance of wisdom emerges. These experiences, and many more, poetically inform and transform my thought, vision and movement. I reside in Simcoe County near Barrie Ontario with my partner, Canadian painter Robert Marchessault.

"Vessel forms have both numinous and mundane identities. They are symbolic objects of domestic
ritual life and they also have reference to the sensual and spiritual. Vessel forms occupy the stage on which
I explore the drama of contrasting elements. These elements include form and emptiness, randomness and order,
symmetry and incongruity, static and kinetic, all of which seem to be contradictory energies existing in a
supportive field. I find that within this natural field of opposites is a free flowing harmonic essence which
underlies all of creation, the universal mother energy expressing her creative dance.To awaken to this underlying
essence is to be inspired by the beauty of subtlety and the sublime."

-Teresa Cullen 2006



"The modern French philosopher Bachelard wrote extensively about intimate spaces, transcendence and humanness within the recesses of the everyday." ... "Her [Cullen's] works combine the timeless and iconic with the tactile and sensuous. Each painting seemingly references a history of ideas through a single object and creates a uniquely sacred space for imaginative contemplation."

- Saara Liinamaa, Teresa Cullen: Form and Emptiness, 2003