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Terrell Lester Biography

Terrell Lester was born in Lincoln Nebraska in 1948. While in elementary school, his interest in art led him to enter a drawing contest. One of the awards was a scholarship for an art course at The University of Nebraska. Terrell won that award and during that course he realized that a career in art was something he might like to pursue. When he was a teenager his family moved to Orlando, Florida. The pristine lakes, springs and beaches close by were “the best part of his youth” and he spent most of his time exploring what was at that time, almost a wilderness, not far from the city limits. His art interests were put aside for a while and replaced by music and sports. After high school, junior college and several attempts to find a job that was creative and challenging, he began a career in Engineering and Surveying which enabled him to be out in the environment. He became Head of Technical Support for a large environmentally innovative engineering firm. This was creative and challenging but also showed him how the environment he loved so much was being destroyed. It became clear that one way he could preserve the beauty around him was on film so in the early 1980’she pursued photography. He studied and read everything he could find in order to learn a way of expressing himself in a medium that was entirely new to him. He set up a darkroom in his bathroom and started exhibiting his photographs. In 1985 Terrell and his wife Ginger moved to Rochester New York to start a full time career as a fine art landscape photographer. For ten years he traveled the east coast following the seasons photographing and exhibiting at almost 40 outdoor art shows a year. In 1987 on one of his trips to Maine he discovered Deer Isle. It did not take long for him to decide that this was where he wanted to make his home. In May 1988, his garage was transformed into the original Terrell Lester Gallery and Terrell’s work became a well- received addition to the art community on the island. In 1993 the gallery was moved into the old post office building in Deer Isle Village. It was such a successful move, that the art show schedule for that summer had to be canceled in order to fill print orders generated by the gallery. The gallery has expanded every year and print sales of Lester’s photographic images have continued to grow year after year. His work is being collected both nationally and internationally.

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