Hello! My name is Teresa.

I am an artist

I am a researcher

I am a teacher

I am also a lot of other things, but these three seem to always be there, connecting in different ways, providing the foundations for everything else, so they must be important.

I worked as a primary school teacher, with an Art specialism, for eight years before moving across in 2010 to lead the Art and Design programme on the Primary PGCE course (Initial Teacher Training) at the University of East Anglia. I continue to work at UEA as a Higher Education lecturer, now leading the Professional Development programme and PSHE Education programmes of the PGCE, in addition to Art and Design.

I have a long-standing interest in the visual arts in the primary phase, as well as some dabblings in arts-based research explorations. I’m trying to do more, and this site is one of those dabblings. It is intended to be my sketchbook, my journal, a repository for thinking about art, research, teaching, and alongside that, also a place where new ideas and connections might emerge.

It is a place to RECORD art, research, teaching ideas.

It is also a place to MAKE art, research and teaching ideas.

As with a sketchbook or a writing journal the content might be a little chaotic at times. But I’m okay with that. Thinking isn’t always neat and tidy. The beauty is sometimes in the chaos and the order, the complex and the simple, and the never knowing what you might find.

This is my creative process. It’s for me. But it’s an added bonus if you enjoy it or take away something from it too.