In the News Artistic Designs by Teresa has been featured in such publications as the IndyStar and Angies List.   As I have enjoyed painting for all my clients, it is good for you to see that you will be in good hands.  News stories (such as the article below) will hopefully give you a better insight of me, mywork and my passion. Thank you for taking the time to view my website. Below is the article posted from Angies List dated April 2004. BEHIND THE SCENES OF SERVICE Artist uses business acumen to balance work and family by Julie Devine Teresa Veach is a whole-brain sort of person — she’s not only creative but logical, too. “I should’ve known — when I met her she was an art major with a math minor,” says her husband, Rick Veach. “Some people might say it’s easy to hate her. She’s very attractive, astute at  business, with good people skills — oh, and she’s a great artist, too. I’m obviously her biggest fan.” Veach uses her left- and right brain talents in running her successful business — Artistic Design by Teresa — where she paints murals, faux finishes and other  specialty effects on home and office walls. “Nobody needed to teach her how to market her business,” says her husband, who is himself a marketing executive. “I’ve trained hundreds of salespeople, and she’s the only one who does everything right. She seems to have learned through osmosis.” Veach met her husband while she was in college at Taylor University in Upland, Ind. He attended nearby Hanover College. “We went on a blind date as a favor for our friends,” she says. “They had broken up and wanted us as a buffer. Now they’re married, too.” She and her husband recently celebrated 15 years of marriage. “My husband is definitely my mentor, my hero, my best friend,” Veach says.“He’s a great source of inspiration. When people appreciate who you are and what you do, it makes you that much better.” To begin with, she spent four years at Brownsburg High School, teaching art classes until the day she had her first baby, Austin, now 11. Soon after he was born, the family moved to Fort Wayne for Rick’s new job. “I decided to stay home with Austin,” she says. “Literally, he was the perfect baby, so I started painting on my walls.” Veach began with a European garden scene in her entryway, then a circus scene in Austin’s bedroom. “Way before ivy was even in, I did it all freehand in the kitchen,” she says. By the time she relocated to Dallas with her husband, she had a second baby — Cameron, now 8, who was just six months old. Veach created some sketches and canvases but other work took a temporary backseat. “In two years I got our home totally to the nines inside and out and had a baby,” she says. “There wasn’t a lot of time.” Before third son Hayden, now 6, was even a month old, the family chose to return to Indianapolis to be near family. That’s when Veach’s hobby finally blossomed into a full-fledged business. “I was painting my kids’ game room with frogs and bugs,” she recalls, “when I thought, ‘I love this so much, I should really do more.’” The family quickly hired an on-call nanny who usually works three days a week. Veach leaves for work when the kids go to school and usually returns home by 4 p.m. “I don’t want to bring work home,” she says. “When I paint on people’s walls, it stays there. Three years later, Rick likes to say his wife strikes a “wonderful balance” between motherhood and work. “You always know when she’s doing a project,” he says. “She won’t sleep the night before. That’s because she’s a perfectionist. But no matter what the project is, the kids come first. She built her business around our lifestyle.”