‘Painting is my favorite nonverbal communication. The nuances of my work are often unintentional, for my part - like subconscious thoughts trapped in context.”

Terry Head has dabbled in art since childhood. 

From kindergarten years, she remembers some observers’ positive comments about her drawings or other renderings. She wasn’t given space and time at school or home to learn and grow in painting. Even as a young adult, she remembers her mother commenting that a painting did not look like the photo. That offhand critique was added to her own personal desire for perfection and a penchant for procrastination. It created a perfect petrie dish for neglecting her calling.

She grew up in NE Texas, finished beauty school, married and moved to the Ft Worth, where they lived for 20 years.

For the last 27 years, she and her husband, Arland, have lived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where they finished raising and homeschooling their six children.

As members of Healing Place Church, they all developed creative disciplines in stage production, event planning, sound and technical design. With the youngest three children on stage and backstage, she volunteered backstage with Baton Rouge Little Theatre. After that, together they designed/built sets and costumes for Playmakers of Baton Rouge.

In 2009, as the children started to grow up, move on and away, Terry entered the beautiful arena of Mary Kay.  Lots of people skills and creative product presentation is helpful to build a direct sales business.

Terry and Arland (and their oldest son) attended to her dad for almost 4 years in their home. 3 of those years had become hospice. What had been a somewhat estranged relationship, had a happier ending in April of 2021. Toward the end of that same summer, uncertainty loomed dark as her and Arland faced a brush with a virus and medical care that nearly overwhelmed them. Recovery was intentional. And progressive. 

No going back. No giving up. No more status quo.

By January of 2022, Terry felt led to plunge into a well-developed online art curriculum and community. She began to engage in painting as a priority,.with Acrylic University. 

After a year of expressive development, she took the next step. She joined a live, local painting community in February 2023, joining 15 other locally reknowned artists. Those connections and encouragement brought her into several shows and developed even more imagination. In July 2025 she has relocated to a more favorably located studio near a collection of other artists.

She is a member of Association of Women in Art and plans to join the Art Guild of Louisiana.

For Terry, art is not about fame and fortune – though she’d welcome some of that!

It’s about being faithful to what’s created to create in her.