Journey

"Journey" is an acrylic painting completed in 2025 from the "Timeless" series. It was the People's Choice winner at the ArtBeat Competition and Exhibition at Robina & GC University Hospital in 2025.

“I grew up in country Australia and the colours of the earth and bush are something that have stayed with me my whole life and something I wanted to share in my art.”

In this series “Timeless” Teresa selected beautiful Australian locations, animals and flora and let them transcend through the artwork. In this painting the Bay of Fires in Tasmania was portrayed within Mother Gaia, the lines of the rocks, the orange of the rocks and the blue of the ocean. She is ripping through time, looking at the clock (our version of time) and a fossil trying to break through the fabric of life. She reminds you that time is not just one concept and to be free of time you have to break through it.

The painting took many days and hours, each brushstroke and mark making made deliberately to give such a beautiful finish. This painting would hang beautifully on any wall. The colours are striking very much suited to the surrealist genre Teresa likes to explore.

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I come from a long line of artists, it's in my blood... I started drawing as a child and have not stopped since.

I am an artist, illustrator and qualified graphic designer specialising in acrylics, illustration, mixed media, digital and airbrushed art.

All my life I have drawn and painted and together with my grandparents who were both artists in country NSW. We spent many hours chasing butterflies and fairies, picking up paperbark and singing, painting and drawing to our hearts content.

Although I have trauma from my childhood from a very personal level, I also have a love of the ridiculous and whimsical. My favourite art genre is surrealism so when I am creating my pieces I like to throw in little curve balls to make myself remember that life should never be too serious.

In 2025 after my daughter went to Canada to chase her dreams and our darling dog Nelson died, I have been exploring the question of time and have created a series called "Timeless" which not only questions if time is linear or something more, it also shows my love of manipulating colour and throwing in items to ask the viewer to question their own view on the subject. The series was featured in the 2025 ArtBeat exhibition at both Robina Hospital and GCUH on the Gold Coast. One of the paintings "Time" won the competition, with another "Journey" winning the People's Choice Award.

I am also very proud to say that I won the ArtBeat Competition on the Gold Coast 2024 and 2025, have been published three times, been a finalist in many Australian and International competitions and have exhibited at some of these. One of my exhibitions was called Two Worlds Converging with my sister Sharen-Lee McLachlan at Pine Ridge Gallery, Redcliffe.

From 2022 I have been collaborating with author Theresa Wakefield to create a series of three beautiful children's books with another on the way.

I hope that you enjoy my art as much as I enjoy creating it.