After decades of work in a wide variety of media, Terry Lively is now concentrating on her love and passion, oil painting. Blending realism, fantasy and current topics, she seeks to bring a broader appreciation of the current reality. Her work has been in numerous exhibitions, private collections, West Virginia Archives The Terry Lively Collection and the National Library of Congress. Her goal is to continue creating for the next decade or so.
After fifty years of creative work, I still get inspired by small, intimate scenes of everyday life that will be appreciated today and recognizable in several centuries.
Her style closely mirrors Edward Hopper, Edvard Munch and Vincent VanGogh with its brush strokes and dense colors and offers bright surprising images.
My exhibition paintings address social issues ranging from the maltreatment of artist Ai WeiWei to the current Climate Change crisis. With nearly 100 documented paintings, I would love to complete 200 before I can no longer produce.