Hi, Iām Teal, a Vermont Artist and Mom of Two. I studied Printmaking, Art History, and other fun stuff at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in the early 00ās and continue to be a student of all that I can see and experience. My creative inspiration comes from the visually rich natural world outside and the emotionally rich world of imagination and self within, and particularly that dreamlike, liminal dimension where they overlap and tug at one another. When creating an illustration, I look for the places where a story or poem connects with my lived and observed human experience and the inner landscape of emotion and imagination. In my commissioned and public pieces, I have sought to highlight human connections to a place through the concepts held about that place, as well as its tangible characteristics. I strive to reference the world as it is unto itself, as well as how it is understood and felt by us through the filter of the heart and mind.