Terri Schmitt is the daughter of an industrial engineer and an artist. She has always been interested in drawing, painting and making things with her hands. She worked as a graphic designer for 20 years; then trained at the Midwest Culinary Institute in Cincinnati, to be a personal chef. Since 2013, she has dedicated her time to studying drawing and painting with some of Cincinnati’s finest artists. Today she has a painting studio at the Pendleton Art Center where she paints in many different media: oil and cold wax, acrylic, watercolor and collage. Her latest fascination is making paintings out of torn bits of hand-painted paper. The paintings are full of impressionistic color, texture and pattern.

Her love of design is evident in the color, texture and pattern throughout her work. Her abstract art has a theme of interconnectivity and interaction. She believes that it is through relationships and community that we heal and grow; and that how we interact with others directly correlates to the flourishing of our society. Many of her paintings are in diptych format, where one canvas is strapped to another and the two become one. The movement of color, light and pattern in her paintings represents words of grace, kindness, mercy and love amplified and unfurled into the world at large. 

Terri accepts commissions for paintings of favorite objects and travel memories. Her paintings are held in private collections in Florida, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee and Texas. She and her husband reside in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati.