"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

Teresa Cullen, B.A., B.F.A., has been a nationally and internationally exhibiting artist for 30 years. The essence of her 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 her sensorial experiences, lending insights to her perceptions and creative acts. Her Buddhist practice & study informs
her creative expression and her work is reflective of both her internal and external life journeys. She sees herself in the lineage of visionary artists, those who seek to translate internal visions and experiences into external images. Luminous contemplative spaces that are experienced internally are translated to the canvas surface, implying a merging of personal myth and universal mythologies as symbolized in the form of vessels and the space surrounding them.

The Space Element weaves through her vessel works and more recently, her waterscapes. They are complementary sides to the same coin, the yin & yang of space as it relates to her observations and experiences. Some of the aesthetic considerations that she works with are: 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. She finds 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 resides in Simcoe County near Barrie Ontario with her partner,
Canadian painter Robert Marchessault. She is currently a part-time M.A. student in
Transpersonal Psychology and occasionally teaches meditation, mandala and drawing classes.

"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