About the Artist
After painting and creating art “for the fun of it” for most of her life, in 1996 Terry Sauvé moved to San Francisco to get serious about her art and attend the Academy of Art College. Here she studied with some of the area’s best painters including Brian Blood, Craig Nelson, William Maughn and Randall Sexton. Today she focuses on painting the landscape. Feeling a deep connection with nature, she is inspired by the natural light falling over a scene. Capturing this magical quality of light is one focus of her paintings, as is “pushing” the color found in nature to enhance the painting. Her method includes taking photographs, making sketches and/or color studies on location. From these references she works on larger finished paintings in her studio. Here, she transmits what she has absorbed from studying color and light in nature into her paintings. Her most recent work reflects her love of the beautiful scenery of Northern California and the Northwest.
Terry’s work was recently selected for inclusion in the “Paint the Parks2007 Mini Top 50”, a national honor. Her prize-winning
work was included in the Academy of Art’s Annual Spring Show for four consecutive years and published in the “New Fillmore” monthly newspaper (Oct. 2002).
Terry resides in Sonoma County with her husband, Paul Scheffert and her son, David.