Before seeking out the NYC art scene Terina, a Maori-American indigenous artist from Laie, HI, studied portraiture and figurative art under Jeff Merrill at Brigham Young University- Hawai’i. She then took color and drawing courses in San Francisco, CA under Ed Hee and Carolyn Meyer. While her aesthetic is influenced by the west coast art scene, Terina, as a young artist, is still developing her artistic voice and is drawing on her east coast art scene environment by exploring and incorporating expressive abstract elements into her work.

 

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