Fine Art, Watercolor, Tropical, South Florida, Portrait, Tree, Landscape, Commissioned Art, Floral, Europe, Realism, Contrast, Values, Light, Terry Arroyo Mulrooney, FAA

Gallery

Though her subjects differ widely, Terry’s paintings all carry her signature style -- an almost photographic quality with a feel that’s ethereal, yet warm, and inspires serenity and peace in the viewer. With discipline and focus, she bends and shapes the fluid and often stubborn watercolors to her will, settling for nothing less than an honest, yet lighthearted and affectionate representation of her subjects. Her work does evoke a definitive emotional response – however, any sentimentality is always tempered with a breezy, at times hypnotic tranquility or a touch of humor and charm.

Terry's Influences/ Inspiration

Terry is particularly inspired by artists whose work has strong composition and a captivating use of light and shadow. Artists she admires include impressionists such as Monet, Degas and Renoir, American portrait painter John Singer Sargent, photographer Ansel Adams, landscape artist Winslow Homer, and watercolorists such as Rembrandt. She has studied chiaroscuro, the artistic principle of using light and dark to add definition, dimension and realism to a subject, and applied it to both her photography and her watercolors.

Tropical