Terri Kelly Moyers has never wanted to do anything in life but paint.  Even as a child growing up in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, she was constantly drawing, mostly horses. She briefly studied at the Alberta College of Art and also the Mount Royal Community College, but the stylistic emphasis in these two institutions was not of the realist, nature-based school that interested Terri.  She continued working independently until she attended a month-long painting workshop taught by the artist, Robert Lougheed, at the Okanagan Game Farm in British Columbia.  It was there that she began in earnest painting animals from life as well as rubbing shoulders with and getting advice from artists from all over America.  One of those artists receiving instruction from Lougheed was her future husband, John Moyers, of New Mexico.

Moyer's favorite subject is the American cowgirl. “I enjoy painting women,” she says. “I feel women had a major role to play in the West, and maybe that hasn’t been recognized as much as it could be.”

Terri Moyers exhibits annually at the Prix de West Show at the Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, and at the Masters of the American West Show at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles.  She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband, artist John Moyers and their son, Josh.

2012 Prix de West Award Recipient