Teresa elliott biography

The eyes seize your attention, just as they do in any great portrait.

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Their complexity, light, and depth express a personality captured in full. You don’t feel as if you’re simply viewing another living being but, rather, that you’re actually making a connection with another soul.

No matter that Teresa Elliott’s subjects are Texas longhorn cattle. The subtlety and sureness with which she paints her large-scale canvases lead many folks who encounter them to experience surprisingly emotional reactions.

“I hear people say that they feel as if they are connecting with the longhorns,” says Elliott, hastening to add that she doesn’t intentionally set out to anthropomorphize the animals.

“But I have such a reverence for my subjects that when I’m done, there seems to be something in their expressions that I wasn’t aware of when I started. They just wind up having a human aspect.”

Count a lifelong connection to the pastoral American West for some of the reverence Teresa Sue Elliott, 61 - Saint Johns, MI - Reputation ... NILOM