Visual Art
Teresa Doyle is a vocal explorer and visual artist. She has a passion for pushing the boundaries of her voice and in recent years has taken her love of vocal improvisation and applied it to abstract art.
Teresa has had a life long passion for painting. She did the artwork for a number of her album covers, was invited to show her watercolours in Kyoto Japan, and was represented for a time by Pilar Shepard’s Gallery on Great George St. She’s been part of group exhibits at The Guild and The Confederation Centre of the Arts. She works in acrylic, ink, pastel, collage and watercolour.
Teresa is the co-founder of Rock Barra Artist Retreat, a secluded 20 acre beach haven on the north shore of Prince Edward Island. The retreat presents concerts and art workshops throughout the summer and hosts artist residencies and visiting artists.
Doyle’s twelve recordings on her label, Bedlam Records, have met with critical acclaim at home in the Maritimes, across North America, Australia, Europe and Japan. This body of work has garnered numerous awards including three ECMAs, two JUNO nominations and the 2007 Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for music, administrated by the Canada Council, and given to one Canadian musician each year to reward excellence in mid-career.
Doyle has performed at countless festivals and concert venues including: The Woodford Folk Festival in Queensland, Cygnet in Tasmania, The Mariposa, Winnipeg and Vancouver Folk Festivals, the Montreal Jazz Festival, the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, England’s Salisbury Art Centre, and The Canadian Embassy in Tokyo. Her music appears on more than a dozen compilations including three collections by Putumayo World Music in New York and three projects with Rough Guide in the U.K. with releases around the globe.
Visual Artist Statement
Over the span of forty years as a professional artist I’ve performed and recorded in many genres, jazz, celtic, world, etc but my true passion is free improvisation… no words, no form, no chord structure. It is a medium that demand complete focus, deep listening, and complete surrender to the creative process. I feel that any artist who has explored the depths of one medium can apply much of what they have experienced in one medium to another discipline.
For me, abstract art is a similar process. I approach the canvas with no plan, no expectation, no subject matter. Improvisation is an exploration of the self, the courage to allow art to be a mirror. As I view the many paintings I’ve produced in the past few years I see that I have found my voice as a visual artist. There is a commonality to my work. It is deeply informed by nature (often underwater worlds), my passion for gardening, my travels, my lyrical tone and the imagined lifeforms that populate my paintings.
For a studio tour or information on buying paintings contact teresa@teresadoyle.com.
Paintings
