Displaying her entrepreneurial spirit, Denise immediately launched a Site Specific arts company to sustain her creative energies until being offered a position as photographer for a Professional Photography Studio.  Within a short time she was promoted to Regional management to train supervisors where Denise wrote a training manual designed for photographers and managers to improve performance and customer relations, along with writing and producing a video training series.

The time came to use her gifts and heart to help others, so  Denise left the photography profession to "re-energize" her site specific art  company , and   “Art Solutions”, a custom fine art company was born.  The “Art Solutions” mission was to create a clearing house for artists uniting the seeker of art with an artist who could custom create and design that piece to fit the buyer’s preferences. Soon Art Solutions employed over 40 artists in various disciplines as independent contractors. Denise secured the commissions and her "on the spot" design ability produced the rough sketch.

Clients loved her talent to visualize and bring tangibility to what they were expressing in addition to her ability to select the precise artist to fit their need.  Art Solutions’s first public art event was the “Canvasing Cleveland” mural held at Cleveland Riverfest 1987, where participants used sponges and cups of color to individually create in their own personal space, but had to collaborate with their neighbors  on their left and right to unite their imagery.  That beginning led to a partnership with acrylic artist JoAnn DePolo's "Come and Create" community participation murals that have been conducted in many Northeast Ohio communities. 

Denise Ivey Telep's personal commissions have included Cleveland firms, Kennametal, Inc, Conversion Resources, FitzSimons Advertising Agency, Landmark Office Towers, The Halle Building, Laurelwood treatment facility, Farro Enterprises, Lake County Pediatric Dentists, Great Lakes Dentistry, M Bistro, Hospice of the Western Reserve, Brown Memorial Hospital, New Orleans Showboat, as well as hundreds of out of state clients.

Local Interior Design firms have commissioned Denise to produce artwork that enhanced their environments, having observed her special sensitivity to colors and themes conducive to healing. That led to many commissions in the Medical and Dental Arts fields as well.  In 2000, DaySpring Cards used Telep’s design as their 25th Anniversary Edition Christmas Card. A Fully ladened and ornamented tree, slowly begins to drop branches and decorations to reveal a simple crown and cross, with the quote, 'When all the trimming is striped away, God's love remains."  In 2005, Telep began producing smaller works for Gallery exhibition, the first of which was "Hijira Gate". Hijira Gate was a symbol of her departure from a primarily "contact art" career into the unknown universe of personal work depicting personal vision.

2010 continues in an expanding direction for Telep as she continues to  create custom murals and site specific fine art for residential and commercial customers along with building her exhibition record of personal work.  Always interested in diverse painting styles, her personal interests includes finding  abstract characteristics in representational art,  depending on viewpoint and perspective. Years of honing her skills to create in multiple styles, for diverse environments is evident in her work today.

"Unlike other artists, I want people to walk up to one of my pieces on exhibition and be somewhat startled that my name is there. Life and art is about stretching and growing, and to me, I have no desire to repeat anything  I have already experienced. These days I  paint whatever inspires me, light, the landscape, statement art, media variations. I am currently working on a series that hopes to widen the perception of people as to what an artist is. There are days when I feel like the world in general has little appreciation for all the ways their lives are impacted by artists. How everything they see in our culture, much of what they use and enjoy, and all the things that beautify their lives, are designed first by the artists hand. This fact is often overlooked when counseling their children on career choices, as if to say the artist does not have a "real job" or provide a "real service". I hope to change that misconception."

One of Denise Ivey Telep’s largest murals can be found at Hospice of the Western Reserve, in Cleveland, Ohio. The atrium cloud mural  is over 4400 square feet at a height of 32 feet. Hidden within the clouds are images of spirituality, hope and peace.

The artist is represented by Art Review Showcase Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio and Lucas Van leyden Gallery in Boston, Mass.  Denise resides in a century home nestled in 6 acres of scenic North Royalton, Ohio with husband, Mike and two children. Joshua, "the big dog" (pictured above) passed away February 10, 2009 and will be forever missed.