Teresa

MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA

WENDY GAUNTLETT-SHAW – ARTIST



24”x36” Oil on Canvas

Original $3000

Fine Art Giclee Reproduction: $700

(On Canvas, Stretched and Gallery wrapped, ready to hang)

10% Donated for micro loans to women

Teresa is a well-educated school teacher who lived on a farm with her husband. In the middle of the night a group of men, the paramilitary or guerillas connected with the drug trade, entered their home and pointed a gun at her husband. They gave Teresa 30 minutes to gather her things and leave. She was 39, and 2 months pregnant with her first child. She made her way to the shelter for displaced people in Medellin. She has no idea what has happened to her husband.

I met Teresa while visiting my daughter, Alina, who was volunteering at the shelter. I did not want to paint the strange graphic on Teresa’s shirt; a high society woman, walking a ‘designer’ dog, with an image of the playboy bunny logo. But I could not ignore its presence. Ironically, it seemed to symbolize the American party culture that is fueling the drug trade and wreaking havoc on innocent Colombians.

I worry about Teresa and her son’s well being. How do

they survive?