Terry Hinkle

Artist Statement

St. Louis artist, Terry Hinkle, has been creating art since he was old enough to hold a crayon. He received his Bachelors Degree in Commercial Arts and Business from the University of Kansas and, after graduation, began his career as a commercial artist, illustrator, and designer. He quickly moved to the creative business of advertising, promotion, and marketing.

It took a lot of work, but Terry finally found the way to break the confining bonds of commercial art and dive into the exhilarating flow of the unstructured, pure creative energy that makes up his new abstract or figurative artwork.

Terry explained that many times he wakes up from a dream with a complete visual of a finished painting in his head and has to rush to capture it before it fades away. But most days, he does a simple meditation before entering his studio to clear out all of the ?human? noise and set his creative intention for the day. Then, with a clear, uncluttered mind, Terry selects the wood or paper or canvas that he will start with, and happily enters that intoxicating stream of creative energy, never knowing where it will take him.