Ink & Watercolour Landscapes, Guided by Feeling.

I didn't come to art through a formal path. I came to it through need - a need to slow down, to notice, and to make something that held feeling without explaining it. That's still what drives me.

These pieces live somewhere between landscape and abstraction.

Using ink and watercolour, I explore atmosphere, movement, and tone through instinctive, responsive mark-making. Each piece is less about capturing a place and more about holding a feeling, something familiar, but not fixed.

Working on paper allows the materials to lead. Edges soften, tones settle, and forms emerge slowly, often in ways I don’t fully anticipate. I’m drawn to that process of allowing rather than forcing, letting each piece unfold in its own time.

I’m Teri Linder, an artist based in the deep south of Aotearoa. My practice is self-taught and guided largely by instinct, a quiet conversation between restraint and release, stillness and movement.

Many works begin as small studies in a journal, evolving gradually through layering and repetition. Some remain minimal and contemplative, while others expand into more expressive compositions, but the thread that runs through them all is atmosphere.

Alongside the work itself, I’m interested in the natural cycles of creating, the seasons of making, and the seasons of stepping back. Not everything is visible. Not everything needs to be.

This is a quiet body of work, made to be felt and returned to.

More About Me

I'm based in the deep south of Aotearoa, where the pace is slower, and the landscape feels quietly expansive. The light here is particular - low, shifting, and often dramatic. It doesn't perform. It simply is. That quality threads through almost everything I make, even when the work isn't directly about a place.

I’ve always been drawn to the quieter side of things, noticing what sits underneath, or what might be missed if you’re not really looking. That way of seeing tends to shape both how I move through the world and how I make.

My work has been shown in exhibitions across Invercargill, Wānaka, and Dunedin, and I’m grateful for the recognition it’s received.

Outside of painting, I spend a lot of time noticing the weather moving through and the smaller changes that are easy to miss. Those are often the things that stay with me the longest.

Thank you for taking the time to be here. I hope the work offers a quiet place to pause, even briefly.