Teresa Spinner, a native of New Haven, Conn., began her art career studying with community artists at the Whitney School of Art. Always a student 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.

Ms. Spinner has studied with Burton Silverman in New York City, with Bruno Lucchesi, David A. Leffel, Lajos Markos and Nelson Shanks. 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, where she was awarded the Landscape Prize in 1989.

Teresa established her artistic reputation during her travels around the United States and Europe with her husband. Her first solo exhibition was in the 1970s in Texas and in Puerto Rico. Later exhibitions of her work took place in North Carolina, Louisiana, and in Pennsylvania.

In Philadelphia she opened a studio-gallery, "The Upstairs Studio," where many of her former teachers gave workshop classes. Under the aegis of Ms. Spinner, these workshops for several years were also as part of the Young Artist Series at the Galleria San Juan in Puerto Rico. Her pencil sketches attracted the greatest praise until she established herself in oils in Romantic Realism. The landscapes in oil, delicate sketches, and classical portraits assured Teresa a firm place in many collections. Her amazing faithfulness to capturing a likeness has become her hallmark.

Ms. Spinner's work hangs in public and private collections throughout the United States, in Latin America and on the Continent. Her paintings and drawings have been frequently shown in exhibitions in the Southwest, Puerto Rico, throughout the eastern seaboard, and in Europe.

Recently returned to the United States after seven years painting abroad and travelling with her husband, Teresa divides her time between her studios in Sarasota and New Hampshire. Aside from the private commissions she accepts, Teresa exhibits her work in shows and galleries. She is represented nationally by the Celery Barn Gallery, Sarasota, Fl. and internationally by D'Esopo Studios, San Juan, P.R.