Teresa Mallen — The Delight is in the Detail
by Sally Hansen
Teresa Mallen marvels at the exquisite intricacy of nature’s floral handiwork, and enjoys every minute spent at her drafting table, creating permanent coloured pencil celebrations of the ephemeral beauty that nature so abundantly bestows.
Until she was in her thirties, Mallen laboured under the false impression that drawing was a natural talent distributed at birth. She always loved visiting art galleries and shows, but her occasional attempts at arts and crafts projects had not revealed her potential as a visual artist. She majored in music in university, married her high school sweetheart, and pursued other interests, until one day she sat down with pencil and paper and discovered she could draw. Today she is an accomplished coloured pencil artist and an art instructor, and happily describes herself as “a poster child for the late bloomer”.
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