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Beyond The Pillars

Beyond the Pillars explores the growth that begins when we move beyond what is familiar. Through fractured forms, organic lines, and luminous color, these works reflect the process of uncovering a more authentic self. Figures emerge, gather, and transform, suggesting that human identity—like nature—is shaped through connection, change, and resilience. This series is about stepping beyond what confines us and into something more open, integrated, and true.

Currently on exhibit at Awaken Gallery

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Trascendence

This series explores transcendence as transformation within ourselves and within society. Fragmented forms and layered color reflect the complexity of human identity and the systems that shape us. Birds symbolize freedom and the possibility of rising beyond division, while plants represent resilience and growth. Together they suggest a collective shift toward kindness, acceptance, and empathy.

 

These paintings imagine a future shaped not by fear or greed, but by compassion—where small choices toward understanding and generosity allow hope, peace, and shared prosperity to take root.

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Epics

What if the most powerful epics weren’t tales of conquest, but of compassion? Not about chosen heroes, but about everyday people who choose to rise—not above others, but into themselves?

This series redefines the epic. It doesn’t celebrate dominance, hierarchy, or divine intervention. It celebrates the inner journey—the fight for selfhood, truth, joy, and collective healing. Each work is a visual myth, layered with symbolic abstraction and luminous texture, envisioning a world shaped by authenticity, freedom, and radical kindness.

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Archetypes

Women are often told who to be before they can discover who they are.

Archetypes is a series of encaustic paintings that explores the roles, expectations, and contradictions imposed on women by society. Drawing on cultural myths, literary references, and personal truths, each piece gives form to a different archetype—some reverent, some rebellious, all revealing.

Archetypes invites viewers to confront the frameworks we inherit, the myths we perpetuate, and the quiet ways we all participate in shaping or breaking the roles women are asked to play. 

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© 2022-2026 Teresa Rench

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