For Terry Moseley Benson, painting is a family tradition. Through a direct line of her mother's family, the Jeffrey's, the roots of her artistic genealogical tree spans seven generations. From the Revival of Scotland down through the Empire, Victorian, and Edwardian periods to the present, the family was filled with talent.

In a 1963 article in the Rochester New York Times-Union, the family was referred to as the Jeffrey's of Scotland and America, and Mrs. Gertrude Heerdte Moore, the director of the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester wrote the following.

"I know of few other lineages which could present so rich a heritage of the painters skill. One would have to go back 200 years to the Peales of Maryland to find so unbroken a dynasty.

Terry's ambitious artistic passions are deeply ingrained. She possesses the creative talent and the love of art stemming from her predecessors as well as her studies with Madame Olga Dormandi, Frank Szasz, Daniel McMorris, and Dwight Roberts. This led her to pursue a B.F.A. in Art Education from the University of Arizona She returned home to teach Art in the Kansas City Missouri school district and continued her education at the Kansas City Art Institute.

Her proficiency in all mediums evolved through personal persistence, exhibiting and entering art shows, and attending artist's workshops with teachers such as Bruno Lucchesi and Robert Vaughn. Worldwide travels through the U. S., Mexico, Europe, South Africa and Zimbabwe has enhanced her knowledge and interests and brought a cultural perspective to street scenes, landscapes, her wildlife greeting cards, as well as her portraits.

Included in the private and corporate art collections are her oil portraits of CEO's of national and regional corporations, champion canines, mothers and daughters, children and pets, brides, horses, elephants, dogs, and many other subjects. The portraits are painted from life or the photographs she personally takes on location. Her talent to catch the spirit and soul of the subject is not only learned, it is that which one inherits with humility and tradition.