Thank you for visiting my Fine Art America site. My name is Teresa Marie Staal-Cowley. I was born and grew up in Southern California. I took my first art class from Gertrude Richardson when I was ten years old at the South Bay Art Association in Redondo Beach. I continued taking art classes at Adams Junior High and Redondo Union High School. The art teachers who most influenced me in high school were Jack McClain and Ron Cooper. I studied Advertising Design in my senior year of high school with Steven West at the Southern California Regional...more