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By ANN WELTON
Arundel Newspapers Staff Writer
When artist Teresa Duke paints, she tries to capture not just what a scene looks like, but what it feels like to be there.
“When I go somewhere to paint, I try to stick to my first impression rather than describing literally what I see with paint,” said the Sperryville artist.
“I think it’s harder to put more of myself into the work, but the goal is to make it more personal and emotive, and less descriptive,” she added. “I’m still struggling to get out of the art school mode, which is a very structured system.”
A well-educated painter, she grew up in Chevy Chase. She earned her undergraduate degree from Boston College and her master’s in painting from George Washington University in 1989.
While working on her master’s thesis she lived in Washington, D.C., and worked at a gallery in Georgetown.
Ms. Duke grew up riding, so when she was of
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