Teresa Martin studied at  Winchester School of Art and has dedicated her career to extending the boundaries of sculpture and making the creative experience accessible to all through her teaching. She develops original abstract forms, combining her considerable casting skills with a desire to extend this process, exploring positive and negative textures and new combinations of materials.Their uniqueness comes partly from the complex process forming them. 
She doesn’t believe in making life easy for herself, relishes a challenge and desires to take her work further into the unknown.

“ I enjoy the challenge of making new solid forms from various powdered and liquid substances.

This is achieved by my adaptation of the casting process. The materials have a fresh existence and a new structure.
There is a strong sense of game playing in this process. I set certain rules but much is left to chance and rapid decisions are needed to guide the immergence of the eventual piece.
It’s working with and against Nature.
The rhythmic manipulation of clay in differing states often has a part in this. The consistency is affected by the passing of time and application can become a performance- frantic, fiddly and fatalistic.
The Earth’s Elements have a continuing part in the appearance of the work. I’m conducting their effects to influence new creations.
I manipulate positive and negative texture deep into the shapes I have fabricated, creating new form without and spaces within.
These forms can have an expansive effect in that they can change the sense of our environment especially when encountered in the landscape. The more intimate spaces within draw you closer with an innate sense of curiosity to investigate further inside.”