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Terry Oakes Bourret

73 Main St. - P.O. Box 626
Durham, CT 06422
Phone: 860-349-1485
Email: OakesBourret@comcast.net
Web: www.terryoakesbourret.com

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Following a career as a Registered Nurse, Terry has been a professional artist and art teacher for over 30 years. She is the winner of over 100 regional and National awards. Her work hangs in private collections around the country and in Europe as well as in public collections that include Saint Francis Medical Center and the State's Connecticut Collection. She is an Elected Member of the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Connecticut Women Artists, Clinton Art Society, New Haven Paint & Clay Club, Lyme Art Association and Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society. She paints primarily in oil and oil pastel, specializing in landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes, as well as florals, animals and portrait commissions of pets, homes and vehicles. She exhibits on two websites: www.PaintingsDIRECT.com and www.TerryOakesBourret.com as well as galleries in Connecticut and New York and her studio in Durham, Ct.

“I have studied with many fine artists over the years but my number one influence and mentor was my dear friend Helen Van Wyk of Rockport Mass. and PBS TV's “Welcome To My Studio.” She changed my life. Because of her, and with my husband's encourgement and support, I left nursing and became a full-time artist. She taught me how to analyze my work, how to study and how to think like a painter. My next important teacher was Charles Sovek, who taught me how to interpret with pure color. Then came another mentor and dear friend, Charles Movalli of Gloucester Mass. He taught me how to compose, be open-minded, be a better teacher and retrieve my sense of humor about the art world. Among my other influences, Charles Reid taught me a better way to draw. LeRoy Neiman taught me to have fun. Robert Henri taught me to paint studies and let paintings happen. John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper taught me to be in awe. “
Original Oil Paintings by Terry Oakes Bourret Stony Creek Fish Market Classic Gas Company B Encampment Workin' the River Winter Scene
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