Theresa Williams, an emerging Canadian contemporary landscape artist, lives in Carstairs, Alberta. Born in Calgary and raised on her family’s large cattle ranch in the BC Interior, Theresa has spent decades exploring western Canada. She is most drawn to gravel backroads and pockets of quiet far. Her strong sense of the landscapes she paints reflects careful observation and an interest first formed as a child and now filtered through reconnection and reconciliation with her mixed Indigenous and settler ancestry. Theresa is a member of the Stswecem’c Xget’tem First Nation and the canyons and valleys surrounding Canoe Creek will always be home. Mainly self-taught, Theresa is known for her plein air painting, steering wheel easel, limited color palette, bold mark-making and vast evocative vistas.
Theresa’s artwork is collected nationally and internationally and hangs in several permanent public collections including the new collection acquired in 2024 by Calgary Stampede for the recent BMO Centre expansion. Theresa’s paintings have been published in magazines and a book of local Alberta History. In 2023 her painting, Blood to Me, was featured on a CUPW poster celebrating National Indigenous Peoples Day. Theresa has shown work in many juried group exhibitions as well as solo shows. Her paintings have placed in competitions and won awards. In 2023 and 2024 she participated in Glacier Plein Air, a juried international event held annually in Montana, USA. Theresa is a juried member of the Alberta Society of Artists and is currently represented by Bluerock Gallery in Diamond Valley, Leighton Art Centre near Calgary, and seasonally at Gust Gallery in Waterton.
