Teresita Leal - Textile Artist

Art quilter in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Exhibiting and selling textile art globally

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CHROMATIC GESTURE II -canvas series - 28 x 24 in - 71 x 61 cm -2025

I longed to feel the immediacy of results, a quality I had always envied in the painter’s process.

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CHROMATIC GESTURE I - canvas series - 28 x x32 in - 71 x 81 cm - 2025

I longed to feel the immediacy of results, a quality I had always envied in the painter’s process.

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Chromatic Gesture series - 2025

Combining the joy of free expression with the soothing, meditative rhythm of stitching.

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Chromatic Gesture III - 25 x 40 in -63 x 102 cm - 2025

I explore the expressiveness of colour and gesture through textile collage. By layering fabrics, I seek to create compositions making colour and value the protagonists. Each fragment of fabric, with its texture and hue, becomes a brushstroke that contributes to an abstract visual narrative, where intuition guides the creative process.

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Chromatic Gesture II - 25 x 40 in - 63 x 102cm - 2025

I explore the expressiveness of colour and gesture through textile collage. By layering fabrics, I seek to create compositions making colour and value the protagonists. Each fragment of fabric, with its texture and hue, becomes a brushstroke that contributes to an abstract visual narrative, where intuition guides the creative process.

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Chromatic Gesture I - 25 x 40 in - 63 x 102cm - 2025

I explore the expressiveness of colour and gesture through textile collage. By layering fabrics, I seek to create compositions making colour and value the protagonists. Each fragment of fabric, with its texture and hue, becomes a brushstroke that contributes to an abstract visual narrative, where intuition guides the creative process.

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THE SPACE BETWEEN - 18" x 24" x 5" - 46 x 61 x 13cm - 2025

The idea of making a wall vase came to me as a long-lost memory of one that used to hang in my family home in the north of Argentina, where the Spanish influence is strong and patio culture remains.

I wanted to recycle elements, and it wasn't until the piece was finished that I realized how closely it resembled something that had been hidden in my mind for decades.

This unexpected recognition felt like a quiet return, an intuitive way of reconnecting with the past through the act of making, bridging the space between.

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Cycles trilogy - Together, these pieces invite viewers to look deeper—beyond the surface—to appreciate the underlying cycles that define our world.

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Cycle of Light - 24 x32 in - 61x81cm - 2025

In the final piece of the series, Light – Day and Night, I explore the dynamic cycle of light. This textile collage reflects the interplay between sunlight and moonlight through thoughtful variations in color and value, presenting a visual contrast between the warmth of day and the coolness of night.

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Integrating Tryptic

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Symbols - Integrating Tryptic -42x22in-107 x 55cm- 2025

Symbols explores cultural iconography, where I weave together the sun—an emblem of power, energy, and spirituality—with native designs that speak to ancestral wisdom and artistic continuity.

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Jungle - Integrating Tryptic - 42x21 inches - 107x53 cm - 2024

Jungle captures the untamed vitality of the natural world, echoing the surreal and mystical qualities often found in Latin American artistic interpretations of nature.

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Village - Integrating Tryptic - 42 x 22 in - 107x56cm-2024

In exploring integration, I have chosen a subject that I find deeply fascinating.

The blending of Latin American art with European modernism has been a captivating process that has produced a diverse range of artistic expressions. Throughout the 20th century, Latin American artists incorporated elements of movements such as Cubism and Surrealism, skillfully adapting them to local traditions to reflect their distinct cultural and social realities.

Inspired by these artists, I´ll make my interpretation in three pieces for this series: Village, Jungle, and Symbols.

Hand-dyed and commercial cotton and silk used in raw edge applique and machine quilting

Village: I depicted a characteristic rural Latin American village, reimagined through a cubist lens.

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WATER - Conversing with Earth series - 24x32inches - 81 x 61cm- 2024

In this new piece in the series, I will talk to the earth about the cycle of water in a monochrome blue palette. I suggest falling water and ascending vapor in a textile collage representation. As in Seasons, I worked mostly with hand-dyed and commercial fabric scraps

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Seasons - Conversing with Earth series -32x24 in - 81x61cm- 2024

In this series, I will converse with the earth about its cycles and represent them with color, value, and suggested movement.

Seasons is the first piece, I worked mostly with hand-dyed and commercial leftover fabric scraps.

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Written with broken Tiles -Trencadis II - 36 x 24 inches - 81 x 61cm - 2024

Trencadís is a type of mosaic made by reusing irregular ceramic fragments. Despite the passage of time, the loss of pieces and fractions of colour, the result seems alive, in motion, in constant transformation. What remains of these works of art preserves this spirit. They show us how to build from broken pieces and make new use of the elements, both in art and life.

Textile collage made with hand-dyed and commercial cotton fabrics, machine-stitched

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The arrival - Ithaka series - 43 x 29 inches - 109 x 74 cm - 2024

As in the poem that inspired this series, it is the journey that counts, the inspiration,

the work, the rejections, and the many changes during the creative process.

I have depicted what I believe to be the various aspects of our way to Ithaka. This final piece represents home, arriving in the autumn garden after swift voyages, rugged mountains, and green valleys.