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Hi! I'm Teri Sloat. I am happy to be a member
of the Adolescently Artistic (AA) group of people
who have not left their childhood and always have
something to say. Thank goodness for words and
pictures and the people who buy them….since I
choose to spend my time immersed in creating other
worlds. Sometimes I wander through one of those
other worlds for a long time in a picture book,
and sometimes I take a shorter trip while creating
a single piece of art that tells a story in one
image. I write for the joy of letting the write
words roll off my tongue, and you can find me
once or twice a week, (or three times if the weather
is good), standing somewhere in Sonoma County
with my easel painting what I think I see.
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My husband, Bob, keeps me in the real world, along
with our three grown-up? children, We all enjoy the
arts and have just had our third Sloat Family Art show.
Bob and I actually illustrated two books together before
he found out that contracting was easier for him than
working on my stories. Besides, he's got his own to
tell.
It's easy to mix up my real world with the fantasy
of what I find there. We live on a small farm in Sebastopol,
California and have raised our own beef, sheep, chickens,
etc…hence the Farmer Brown stories, and we have a cabin
in the Trinity Mountains. We lived in the Alaskan bush
for 12 years, joined the Yup'ik people in their seasonal
activities, and were immersed in their folklore. It
is there that I learned how to write a story with pictures
on the spot while storyknifing. It is also there that
I learned the best way to speak of conflict was through
a story.
My imagination also fools me into thinking I'm not
scared when I'm riding on a horse through the Rockies
on a cliff, or flying into a white-out on the tundra,
and my curiousity keeps me traveling to other countries
to some out-of-the-way places where mythical animals,
imaginary people and their legends still run free.
By the way, I don't intend to grow up. I'm finding
that the pictures I've been doing lately are moving
me back to color, shape and the same fantasy world I
had when I was about 6. Someday I will leave the AA
group and move to the PC (Permanently Childish) group.
For more information, please visit www.terisloat.com
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