The daily ritual of walking to school across the Northern California native coastal steppe imbibed my soul with an affinity towards plant materials and wildlife.  This connection is manifest in oil paintings, fiberworks and landscape architectural designs.  Ter lives on an island in the Salish Sea.    

 

Education

University of Oregon, bachelor of landscape architecture

Oxford University, Oxford, England, history of the English landscape

Gage Academy of Art, oil painting

City College of San Francisco, intaglio printmaking, Italian

 

Exhibits

2013: Vintage Photo Project, American Craft Council, fiberwork http://craftcouncil.org/post/vintage-photo-project-terry-samilson

 

2012: Visual AIDS Postcards from the Edge, Cheim & Read, New York, NY, fiberwork

             Agency Innovations Gallery, McCaw Hall, Seattle, WA, commissioned fiberwork

             Global Health Gallery, Intiman Theater, Seattle, WA, fiberwork

             Decay, Winslow Art Center, Bainbridge Island, WA, solo exhibit, fiberworks

 

2010: Visual AIDS Postcards from the Edge, ZieherSmith Gallery, New York, NY, fiberwork

 

2007: Visual AIDS Postcards from the Edge, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, fiberwork

             5, Gallery Fraga, Bainbridge Island, Wa, group show, oil paintings + fiberwork

             Birds of a Feather, Gallery Fraga, Bainbridge Island, Wa, group show, oil paintings + fiberwork

 

2006: Visual AIDS Postcards from the Edge, Sikkema Jenkins & Co. Gallery, New York, NY, fiberwork

             Bainbridge the Beautiful, Gallery Fraga, Bainbridge Island, Wa, group show, fiberworks

             Reception for Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, Benaroya Hall, Seattle, Wa, fiberwork

             As the Crow Flies, Gallery Fraga, Bainbridge Island, Wa, group show, fiberworks

 

2005: Visual AIDS Postcards from the Edge, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, illustration

             Circular Needles, new knitting paintings, Churchmouse Yarns and Teas, Bainbridge Island, Wa

             The Queen Anne Tree Walk, fiber arts installation in Kennear Park, a tribute to Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai, Seattle, Wa

             The Dictionary Game, www.paulmorrissey.net, collaborating artist amongst 22 artists and writers, 12 definition illustrations for the letter r

 

2004: Art Port Townsend, Northwind Art Center, Port Townsend, Wa, oil painting

             National Conference on Coastal & Estuarine Habitat Restoration, Washington Trade and Convention Center, Seattle, Wa, oil paintings

             Featured Artist of the Month, Bainbridge Arts and Crafts, Bainbridge Island, Wa, oil paintings

             Empty Bowls Project, botanical glazed ceramic bowls, Bainbridge Arts & Crafts, Bainbridge Island, Wa

 

2003: Knitting with Paint, Churchmouse Yarns and Teas, Bainbridge Island, Wa

             Artists in Residence, Vermont Studio Center dining hall, group show of selected resident artists, Johnson, Vt

 

>:         Images of America, group show, Bainbridge Performing Arts Center, Bainbridge Island, Wa

             Shorebirds Gallery, botanical painted fabrics, Tiburon, Ca

             Belknap + Purcell, botanical painted fabrics, San Francisco, Ca

             The Linen House, botanical painted fabrics, Sausalito + San Rafael, Ca

 

Collections

PATH, Seattle, WA, commissioned by the Washington Global Health Alliance

Private collections from the Pacific Northwest to Europe

 

Publications

Exhibition, Bainbridge Arts + Humanities Council journal of visual and literary arts, frontispiece, oil painting image, april 2007

The Seattle Review, University of Washington English Dept. literary journal, cover art, oil painting image, winter 2007

KNOCK, Antioch Aniversity Seattle literary arts journal, eco-art contest winner, fiber art images, issue #6, fall 2006

 

Residencies

Vermont Studio Center, grant awarded by VSC for month long painting residency, Johnson, Vt, February 2003 

Woodward Middle School, Artist in Residence, botanical realism in watercolor, Bainbridge Island, Wa, 2002