{"id":81044,"date":"2025-06-17T13:18:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T17:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=81044"},"modified":"2025-06-17T13:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T17:19:57","slug":"artist-teresa-pennington-marks-40-years-at-her-waynesville-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/artist-teresa-pennington-marks-40-years-at-her-waynesville-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Teresa Pennington Marks 40 Years at Her Waynesville Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_81048\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81048\" class=\"size-full wp-image-81048\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/T-Pennington-Gallery-Mid-Summers-Twilight-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/T-Pennington-Gallery-Mid-Summers-Twilight-copy.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/T-Pennington-Gallery-Mid-Summers-Twilight-copy-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/T-Pennington-Gallery-Mid-Summers-Twilight-copy-1024x695.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/T-Pennington-Gallery-Mid-Summers-Twilight-copy-768x521.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/T-Pennington-Gallery-Mid-Summers-Twilight-copy-810x549.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/T-Pennington-Gallery-Mid-Summers-Twilight-copy-1140x773.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-81048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mid-Summer\u2019s Twilight. Teresa Pennington, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Gina Malone<\/p>\n<p>Teresa Pennington tells a particularly inspiring story of her journey into art. At age 20, a drunk driver hit her vehicle head-on and fled the scene, leaving her lying on the shoulder of the road. Injured badly, she later received compensation\u2014not enough to make up for losing a kidney, she says\u2014but a sufficient amount to build herself a cabin and a studio. \u201cI didn\u2019t realize it at the time,\u201d she says, \u201cbut this was a pivotal moment in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A watercolor artist at the time, she began painting on everything from furniture to fashions. Two years later she gave birth to a son, then two years after that found herself divorced and living as a single mother. \u201cMoving forward, my son and I used to paint together, he in his high chair and me at the dining room table,\u201d she says. \u201cThose were some lean years, but, thankfully, that money that I invested in a house became a catalyst for my career. I sold that house, moved to Waynesville, built another house and opened my gallery on Church Street in 1985.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_81047\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81047\" class=\"wp-image-81047\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/T-Pennington-Gallery-Into-the-Smokies-3p3-by-5-Light-SAT-19-L6-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/T-Pennington-Gallery-Into-the-Smokies-3p3-by-5-Light-SAT-19-L6-copy-2.jpg 1067w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/T-Pennington-Gallery-Into-the-Smokies-3p3-by-5-Light-SAT-19-L6-copy-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/T-Pennington-Gallery-Into-the-Smokies-3p3-by-5-Light-SAT-19-L6-copy-2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/T-Pennington-Gallery-Into-the-Smokies-3p3-by-5-Light-SAT-19-L6-copy-2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/T-Pennington-Gallery-Into-the-Smokies-3p3-by-5-Light-SAT-19-L6-copy-2-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/T-Pennington-Gallery-Into-the-Smokies-3p3-by-5-Light-SAT-19-L6-copy-2-810x1215.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-81047\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Into the Smokies. Teresa Pennington, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Saturday, June 28, in her gallery, she will celebrate\u2014with the theme of Thankfulness\u201440 years in business as an artist.<\/p>\n<p>After opening her gallery, she left paint behind and turned to colored pencils. \u201cI knew nothing about running a business, much less making a living from my artwork, but I had two great friends,\u201d Pennington says. \u201cOne loaned me $1,000; the other gave me a set of colored pencils and I was off and running.\u201d She bought the equipment she needed and a vehicle to carry it in and began traveling to art shows. Her mother kept the gallery going and took care of her son while Pennington was away.<\/p>\n<p>In 1987, she completed a drawing of Biltmore House and ran an advertisement in the <em>Asheville Citizen<\/em> to sell prints. The day after the ad ran, she received a call from administrators at Biltmore asking if she would meet with them the next day at their Biltmore Village office. \u201cI had no idea that I had just violated their trademark,\u201d Pennington says. \u201cFortunately, they liked the drawing, gave me permission to sell it and drew up a contract allowing me to do more. They were so gracious and kind to me. The opportunity to draw that magnificent house and gardens has been one of the greatest honors of my life and career.\u201d To date, she has done 18 drawings of Biltmore that are available in its retail stores and in her gallery.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_81046\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81046\" class=\"wp-image-81046\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/T-Pennington-Gallery-Conservatory-Biltmore-4p25-by-5p5-SAT-20-L17-adjusted-8-by-7p5-for-a-note-card-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"309\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-81046\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Biltmore Conservatory. Teresa Pennington, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>She purchased a building in downtown Waynesville in 1994, renovated and remodeled it and has been there ever since. \u201cTo say that I have been blessed would be an understatement,\u201d she says. \u201cWith lots of prayer, I figured out life, business and art at a very young age because I had to. Of course, I made mistakes, lots of them, but I tried to learn from them and keep moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pennington also takes pride in being a part of the executive board of the Downtown Waynesville Association and establishing the Church Street Art and Craft Show held every October in downtown Waynesville for 41 years.<\/p>\n<p>All of the artwork in her gallery is her own, and all of it was created only with colored pencils. \u201cI have two fabulous, intelligent, hard-working women that I love like family who work for me,\u201d she says. \u201cI am still moving forward; retirement is nowhere in sight. I still love what I do and the people I do it with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>T Pennington Gallery is located at 15 North Main Street, Waynesville. Hours are Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/TPennington.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TPennington.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teresa Pennington tells a particularly inspiring story of her journey into art. 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