BIOGRAPHY

Teale’s desire to pursue the study of fine arts within an intellectually informed context led her to receive her liberal arts degree from Scripps College in Claremont, California, where she refined her sense of composition through the practice of photography and the formation of three dimensional spaces.  Armed with a strong understanding of western sociology and a love of history, Teale studied painting and scenic design at the Slade School of Fine Arts, University College London, where she realized the sarcastic humor and organic qualities of the built environment and began her personal studies of architecture and urban planning.  Upon graduation in 2000, Teale was awarded for her extensive library featuring readings on spatial theory, architecture, stage design, photography, urban planning and the philosophy of the effect of structures on the human condition.  Further information was garnered through studies of photography and architecture at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. 

Continuing her personal studies, Teale has worked as a muralist, scenic painter, scenic designer, and artist.  Constantly broadening her understanding of how and why parts work together, Teale sees her theatrical background as having offered an opportunity to create larger, almost three-dimensional forms of her two-dimensional work.  The stage offers Teale a microcosm in which she can build miniature cities or design massive environments conceived from the smallest building blocks of the urban landscape.  Teale has realized her two-dimensional visions through the altering or emphasis of realistic, spatial relationships to create architecturally-based compositions which aim to both confuse and please the eye. 

Teale approaches the practice of art in an investigative, experimental and research-minded way.  A fourth generation Angeleno and an advocate of historic preservation, Teale finds Los Angeles to be the ideal source of subject matter for her paintings.  Its history often being dismissed for its future, Teale hopes to bring attention to Los Angeles architecture by offering viewers their often unrealized, but always personal experiences of a city on the cusp of understanding its historical significance.  
Teale Hatheway is an artist working and showing in and around Los Angeles, California.