Theresa Vandenberg Donche was born to a family of Dutch immigrant farmers. She grew up in the countryside of Central California. Like many artists, Theresa attributes a lot of her inspiration to the environment she lived in as a child: the cultivated landscape, the overwhelming skies, and the constant variations of the seasons.

Her formative years were spent in Southern California, where in addition to painting, she also trained as a designer, and became the owner of a successful design firm.

Her work as a designer, where discipline is a requirement, is a complete contrast to her art as a painter, where she is free of rules. That tension between creative precision and experimental abstract, is what pushes her to constantly try new ways to create.

Theresa's expression of her abstract art is emotional as well as physical, expressing lots of power and energy.

Her inspiration comes from such artists as Beckman, De Stael, Diebenkorn, and Kandinsky. She favors dense textures, vibrant colors and thoroughly saturated canvases.

In a world where daily order is required for one to live in society, abstract art for Theresa is the ultimate freedom of expression.