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b. 1955 -
Born in Suffolk, she started painting at an early age using the offcuts of board and card discarded by her mother, the painter Mary Newcomb. In this way, she developed the knack of painting on long thin shapes, something that still features in her work. She went on to study at Bath Academy of Art (1976) and Wimbledon School of Art (1977) and taught adult classes, Art and Ceramics in Suffolk and Norfolk (1985-89).
Tessa Newcomb began painting on furniture, boxes and other three dimensional wooden objects, painting with oils directly onto the surface of the wood. She works inspired by ‘slow, atmospheric films, poetry, going places and rail journeys’. Her work is held in many public collections including: Bradford Metropolitan Museum; Whitworth Art gallery, Manchester; Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Collection, London; Strawberry Hill College; Ocean and Transport plc
Exhibitions Include:
Royal Academy; The Annexe Gallery, London; Galerie Ploemp, Oulde Delft, Netherlands; Fulham Fine Art, London; The School House, Wighton, Norfolk; Christopher Hull Gallery, London; Denis Taplin, Suffolk; Cork Brick Gallery, Bungay, Suffolk; Primavera, Cambridge; Chappel Galleries, Colchester, Essex; Wyken Hall, Suffolk; Cane Kalman Gallery, London; Lena Boyle Fine Art, London