Teresa Pooles distinctive blend of japonais and western influences is taken from a lifetime of random memories, dreams and thoughts, then rearranged to bring an order out of chaos rather like a museum of her mind. 

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Using images relating to love and longing and how it makes us behave. Everyone in the world can relate to the depths we all go to find it and what we will do to keep it. She loves this reflection of the moon which appears in every painting. Of how for centuries man has gazed at the night skies and looked at the same moon. Lunacy .. the madness of love and the hypnotic powers the moon holds over us all. 

Coming from a rather rigid creative back ground of decorative art nowadays she likes to work organically  starting with an inky watery abstract flooding metal leaf and patinating using sumi ink and handmade pigment inks on gilded metal leaf, then taking the image to a more traditional composition.

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Trained by designer Thomas Messel in the 1980s as a decorative painter  using traditional materials and methods on furniture and walls. She then moved to London where she worked on the Japanese screens that completely changed her view on composition and art , translating the beauty of nature in a more understandable language. 

She has painted murals and interiors internationally in Italy, Amsterdam, Ibiza, on the QE2, France, extensively in the USA and in many hotels and private homes.