BIO
Teresa Cook was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida. She is a self-taught Abstract Architectural Watercolor artist and has been painting watercolor for 11 years.

She obtained her BFA from University of North Florida in 2012, in Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking. She has a love for architecture, landscapes, and buildings, through her obtained Associates degree in 2007, in Computer Drafting and Design from ITT Tech. She also creates mini watercolor abstractions using multiple materials, like pastel, gold-leaf and more.

Each of her watercolor and ink paintings are created on smooth paper called, “yupo,” are meant to capture a moment in time without the interruption of people. You will not see much human interaction within her art, unless it’s her portraiture art like her, “James Baldwin Smoking.” Over the last 10 years, she has been traveling to different countries as well as around her native city. She recently traveled to Amsterdam for the 2019 Urban Sketchers Symposium (USK Symposium), and then Puerto Rico in 2021. She recently displayed her art in the Ritz Theatre, “See Jacksonville: Past and Present,” and currently at the Cummer Museum, “Women’s Rights Movement,” until June 2024.

She is an Art Instructor with Duval County Schools, Cathedral Arts Project, and local places her in Jacksonville, plus her workshops are currently held at MOCA, Cultivate, First Coast Cultural Center, Bold City Creatives and privately for 2024. You can also catch her at the Riverside Arts Market with her other business, “Minis in my MINI,” her tiny art in her blue MINI Cooper.

ARTIST STATEMENT
See Jacksonville X Valdosta Exhibition, is my love of the places in Jacksonville, some gone, and some still here and they represent places of my home, but now connecting places in Valdosta, GA.

Here you will see places I visited with my dad, and places I visit with my son. Some places, I just appreciated because of the architecture, and the impacts they made to many people around me. My style of abstraction comes through with the blind contour line work and the quick, loose watercolor style. This style then connects my love of tiny art, by including a 1” x 1” watercolor painting, of some of the paintings, in each large painting.

Use the magnifying glass and find all of them. Look at the other tiny paintings and the other places of Jacksonville and Valdosta that has made an impact to me and you. See Jacksonville, Old, New, Past, Present and see them the way I see them…. through a magnifying glass, but now with places in Valdosta.