Terry Marks

As a young teenager she met painter Joseph Wolins, known for his work during the WPA period, who became her first art teacher and mentor.

In 1980, she moved to London, England, where she lived for nine years, went to art college and worked in a lot of hellish pubs pulling pints for football hooligans.

In a 2004 interview for NY Arts Magazine, she made the following statement about Stuckism that has been often quoted: We all choose to be painters, but not as if rock & roll, television, cars, cinema, jazz, and the whole 20th century never happened.

[1]On her process, she has said, I arrange pictures I've collected in odd juxtapositions to trigger subconscious imagery and evoke a dream state.

My compositions emerge from this process and the act of painting - lead white on a dark surface, then layers of translucent colours.