I am an intuitive painter with my work heavily influenced by what speaks to me in the moment and the experiences I have had in my life. I do not start a painting with a preplanned design, but with the intention to see where the work takes me. My work is multilayered and I continue developing a piece until the painting begins to speak to me and I begin to see something surfacing in it. Then and only then, the painting and I are collectively within a rhythm of creation together. Whether you call it “in the flow”, God speak, Spirit connection, it is a point where the magic of creation happens for me and I am in my joy. I thoroughly enjoy making bold marks, making my paintings almost sculptural, using both brushes, palette knives and found tools to move paint and media. I work on canvas, wood, and high-quality paper using acrylic, oil, collage and other media. I typically work in series with each piece in the series influencing the other. I paint landscapes as well as figurative paintings. I create in both topics with the feeling that figures and faces too are landscapes. I love color, its energy whether it is serene or vibrantly active and continue to explore what impact color can bring to my work. I find great delight in the completion of a work that encourages the viewer to enter their own world of wonder and appreciation and to witness the light in their eyes when this does happen.
I am currently represented by Gallery B612 in Seattle Washington The POAC Gallery in Sandpoint, Idaho. My I am on Instagram @teresarancourtartist and on Facebook. And I thoroughly enjoy and appreciate having guests visit me in my studio in Sandpoint, Idaho too.
ART BACKGROUND
I have painted off and on for about 30 years. I did both undergraduate art studies at the University of Washington, took many courses and workshops at Pratt Institute in Seattle, Washington and studied both in person and remotely under several successful practicing artists. Until 2021, my business career followed by business ownership took precedence over my art practice. In 2021, I decided it was my time to make my longtime dream to become a full-time artist real. During that time, I completed three Art2Life 12-week intensive programs in 2021, 2022 and 2023. I went to Ireland and Taos New Mexico to study abstract landscape painting and did multiple Ecourses with various artists. While this study provided me with a springboard, in many ways I consider myself a self-taught painter.
In 2021, I received my first a feature art article in a local magazine. In 2022, I got my first showing followed by my first solo show which sold three of my largest most expensive paintings the first week. That following year, 2023 I was juried selected four times, published in an international magazine and was in two group shows. 2024 was a big year for me. I was named Artist Of The Year by the Pend Oreille Arts Council, had my second successful solo show, was in nine group shows and was published five times including a feature article. In 2025 I was in ten group shows, had a feature news article, awarded recognition in two juried competitions and had a banner selling year (although knowing my work is appreciated and loved in someone’s home is my bigger prize). The first months of 2026 has brought me into four group shows with accepted work for three more. I am currently working on a body of work that is larger in scale for upcoming group shows and painting my heart out in joy.
I am currently represented by Gallery B612 in Seattle Washington and POAC Gallery in Sandpoint, Idaho. My website is teresarancourtart.com. I am on Instagram teresarancourtartist and on Facebook. And I thoroughly enjoy and appreciate having guests visit me in my studio too.
Gallery Shows Awards, Publications
(Please note that I first began showing my work publicly in 2022)
2026
Gallery B612 “Love Letters To Planet Earth” Group Show
Gallery B612 “ Wonderland” Group Show
POAC Gallery “Her Mark” Group Show
Gallery B612 “Looking Back, Looking Forward” Group Show
POAC Gallery “A Second Life: Art From The Unexpected” Group Show
Gallery B612 “She A Narrative On The Feminine Experience
POAC Gallery “Confluence: Five Women In Contemporary Practice
2025
Art Spirit Gallery “30th Annual Small Works Show” Group Show
POAC Gallery “The Art Of Giving” Group Show
POAC Gallery “Where We Gather” Group Show
The Daily Bee Newspaper “Where We Gather” Article
The Reader Newspaper Article “Where We Gather”
POAC Gallery “Second Life” Group Show
The Daily Bee Newspaper Article “Second Life”
GalleryB612 “Women” Group Show
Feature Article; Northern Journeys Magazine
Award for Creative Excellence Santa Fe Juried competition
The Reader Newspaper Article “Visions”
POAC Gallery “Art From The Unexpected” Group Show
The Reader Newspaper Article” Art From The Unexpected”
POAC Gallery “Her Mark-A Tribute To Women Group Show.
The Reader Newspaper Article “Her Mark-A Tribute To Women”
The Daily Bee Newspaper Article “Her Marl-A Tribute To Women”
Art Sprit Gallery “Local Color” Group Show
Honorable Mention Juried Competition For Artist Of The Year Circle Foundation
Daily Bee Newspaper Article “Local Color”
Gallery B612 “Untitled” Group Show
POAC Gallery “Visions For 2025” Group Show
2024
Art Sprit Gallery “Annual Small Work” Group Show
Gallery B612 “When We Were Young” Group Show
Solo Show “Nature, My Muse” POAC Gallery
Gallery B612 “Women” Group Show
Gallery B612 “Landscape/ Dreamscape” Group Show
The Daily Bee Newspaper published “Landscape/Dreamscape”
Gallery B612 “Abstraction In Blue” Group Show
POAC Gallery “Found Fragments” Group Show
The Daily Bee Newspaper published “Found Fragments”
The Reader Newspaper Article published “Found Fragments”
Awarded Pend Oreille Art Council’s 2024 Artist of the Year
The Reader Newspaper Feature Article 2024 Artist of the Year
Gallery B612 “African American” Group Show
POAC Gallery “Winter Mosaic” Group Show
The Reader Newspaper Article published “Winter Mosaic”
POAC Gallery “Miniature Masterpieces” Group Show
2023
Gallery B612 New Beginnings Group Show
Circle Quarterly Magazine “Women” Juried Selected
Circle Foundation For The Arts 2022-2023 Juried Award for Artistic Excellence
Rhode Island Watercolor Society Juried Group Show “Painting In Blue”
Circle Foundation For The Arts “Spotlight Magazine Award for Artistic Excellence
2022
Pend Orielle Art Council Art Walk, Solo Show Peppered Mercantile
Pend Orielle Art Council “Dreams Illustrated” Group Show
The Daily Bee Newspaper published “Dreams Illustrated”
The Reader Newspaper Article published “Dreams Illustrated”
2021
The Mill Magazine Feature Article