About the Artist
Maria Teresa was born in Rome, Italy.
She resides in Salisbury, NC, since 1984 after having lived in Libya and Saudi Arabia for several years with her husband.
Since a very early age she was interested in art, but only when in Libya she started to paint seriously. In the seventies she completed correspondence courses from the Famous Artists School in Westport, CT. Upon establishing her residence in Salisbury, she joined the Waterworks Visual Art Center where she has continued to take courses. Her instructors have been during the years Ron Crusan, Connie McNeill, Lou Murphy, Phyllis Steimel and more recently Harold Frontz.
One of her paintings "Purple Tree" is on the cover of "A Lenten Book of Days" of Fuquay Varina United Methodist Church, Lenten 2009.
In the Spring 2009 she participated to "Faces of Abundant Living" making a portrait of one of the residents.
She is member of:
| Waterworks Visual Art Center | Plein Air Carolina | The Carolina Artists |
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