Terry Bouton
Bouton specializes in Drawing, Painting and Sculptural Ceramics. Drawing underpins all her work and her emphasis is upon first training the eyes to see and then using this empirical knowledge to selectively create an artwork.
In painting she favours the alla prima method. In class she focuses on learning to see. Technically she centres on colour, value, temperature, edges and the placement of the brushwork rather than using an underlying structural drawing. In the absence of strict drawing she believes the work is able to emerge and the artist appears.
In the same way her sculptural work often relies from subtracting the clay to allow the face and figure to emerge. The emphasis in her 3D works is on conveying ideas. To her the narrative and meaning are foremost. Her oeuvre ranges from figurative to the abstract. Her recent work involves a dialogue between man and machine.
Terry taught as a high school teacher in New South Wales and private schools in QLD before returning to University to receive a first class honours in Ancient History. Her thesis examined the depictions of the Homeric Odyssey on Classical Greek vases. She has been active in the ceramics community being on the Board of Fusions and committee member for the Verge Conference. She is active in the Sculpture Society and runs the weekly Studio Sessions and Residency Program.
Terry has been a finalist in the Hutchins Drawing Prize, the Waterhouse Prize, the Alice Prize and winner 3D in the Stanthorpe Prize. She has studied in the USA at the Palette and Chisel and The Art Students League.
website: www.terrybouton.com
