Terriesa Torode is an English-born self-taught artist based in Ireland. Her background knowledge is rooted in horticulture where, for over 30 years, she became known and popular as a self-employed horticulturist, garden designer, and journalist throughout Co. Tipperary. These many years of experience allowed her to obtain membership to the Chartered Institute of Horticulture (M.C.I HORT).
Terriesa’s inspiration stems primarily from nature. She takes great delight in noticing shapes, colours, and textures of leaves. Admiring distant valleys and mountains, trees, flowers, and wildlife. Terriesa chose to challenge herself by exploring new illustrative styles.
This is Terriesa’s first exhibition in almost a decade having previously presented in Nenagh Library with her collection of painted acrylic slates. This exhibition “” explores mythological and natural scenes using watercolour and acrylic paint.
In 2022, while sitting at the beach, Terriesa was inspired to create a mermaid painting. This ended up being titled “Tranquillity” and is being showcased at this exhibition. From there, Terriesa added more details to her illustrated scenes, diving deeper into the depths of her skillset.
There are themes of comfort and peace throughout her work and are all very personal to Terriesa’s journey and experiences. There are also themes of dreamy mythology which Terriesa finds extremely inspiring.
“From here, I want to further experiment with textures of rocks and leaves. I strive for self-improvement in everything I do, whether in the garden, or on a canvas or paper. I very much hope you enjoy the exhibition I have been working on and piecing together over the last two years. If you enjoy my work a fraction as much as I have enjoyed this journey to-date, then I will be extremely proud of my efforts. Wishing you much fun exploring the rockpools, coves, castles, and meadows of my memories.”