Teresa Spinner, a native of New Haven, Connecticut, began her art career studying with community artists at the Whitney School of Art. She later studied sculpture and painting at Bennington College, Vermont, with Ken Davies at the Paier School of Art in New Haven and with painters on the faculty at Yale University such as Deane Keller and Pulitzer Prize winner Rudolph Zallinger.
Teresa D Spinner
She attended the National Academy of Art, the Art Student's League in New York City and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
A lifelong student, Ms Spinner has studied with Burton Silverman, Bruno Lucchesi, David A. Leffel, Lajos Markos and Nelson Shanks.
While in Philadelphia she opened, "The Upstairs Studio", where many of her colleagues with international standing gave workshop classes. At the same time, she founded Signilar Art Videos. Signilar has been a leading producer of teaching videos of America's greatest artists for 20 years.
Teresa has established her artistic reputation with skills developed during her travels around the United States and Europe with her husband.
The landscapes in oil, delicate sketches, and classical portraits have earned Teresa a firm place in many collections. Her distinctive ability for capturing a likeness has become her hallmark.
When not traveling here and abroad, Teresa divides her time working on commissions between her studios in Florida and New Hampshire.
