Teresa Volpe was born in Cosenza in 1965.  After finishing school in Amantea she enrolled at the University of Salerno and graduated in educational sciences. She moved to Veneto where she taught for 28 years.

She left teaching due to a chair-shaped maculopathy and returned to live in Calabria, familiarizing herself by necessity with techniques and applications of visual enlargement, she approaches digital painting and, aided by technologies, exploits the visual residue of the remains for her works, favoring fantastic, dreamlike images and themes.