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Tessa Coleman NEAC

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Crushed Milk Bottle and Lid

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Tessa Coleman NEAC
Oil
46 x 35 cm
£1,100
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2021
Available for collection: 
24 May 2021

Chiara in Green

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Tessa Coleman NEAC
Oil
80 x 60 cm (85 x 65 cm framed)
£3,500
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2021

Crushed Milk Bottle and Paper Bag

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Tessa Coleman NEAC
Oil
40 x 32 cm (45 x 37 cm framed)
£1,100
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2021

Mahjong

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Tessa Coleman NEAC
Oil
145 x 114 cm
£8,500
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2021

Alice in her Blue Boots

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Tessa Coleman NEAC
Oil
127 x 81 cm
£4,900
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2020
Available for collection: 
26 November 2020

Robert The Dancer

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Tessa Coleman NEAC
Oil
122 x 76 cm
£4,500
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2020
Available for collection: 
26 November 2020

In the Empty Quarter

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Tessa Coleman NEAC
Oil
76 x 76 cm
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2019

Rock Paper Scissors I

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Tessa Coleman NEAC
Oil
51 x 51 cm
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2019
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About Tessa Coleman NEAC

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Artist details

Artist's Statement

Tessa’s work is about finding the visual interest in the world around her. Her picture ideas come from many sources, but are normally visually led. They usually start with a glance that stops her in her tracks, often based on unexpected shape or colour juxtapositions. Some recent starts have included the unexpected pairing of traffic light and tree set against the distant skyscrapers, shadows of a stag’s skull, rushing figures in the sunlit street. The subject matter can be close at hand and intimate, or vast and distant, in other words lemon, city or both. The vertiginous and unexpected perspectives Tessa has experienced whilst living in New York the last two years has led to an investigation into perspectival systems and how to deal with spatial issues in new ways in her painting. 

Method of Working

Drawing is critical to Tessa’s working process and is how she explores her ideas and develops her compositions. The structural and formal qualities of the image are key. Her first degree was in pure mathematics, and geometric organization and pattern are pretty deep rooted in her work. The more relationships, rhymes and patterns she sees in an image before starting to paint the stronger the final work normally is. 

She likens the messy and very unscientific process of beginning a painting to sculpting in shape and colour, constantly adjusting  and fine tuning until the image comes together and the parts add up to a cohesive and well structured whole. The all too elusive goal is for this whole to be bold and decisive, subtle, arresting, read at a distance and up close, work as a window and a wall. 

Biographical Details

1964  Born in Hampshire

2002  Figurative Painting Diploma from Heatherleys following a Pure Mathematics Degree from Exeter University in 1985, and a previous career as a Japanese Fund Manager in London and Tokyo

2010  Elected to membership of the New English Art Club

2014  Moved to New York to do a Masters in Fine Art at the New York Academy Of Art

Society Memberships

New English Art Club

Scholarships, Awards, Prizes

2015   New York Academy of Art Giverny Summer Residency Award

2014   Scholarship for New York Academy of Art two year Masters Programme

2009   Cecil Jospe Prize, New English Art Club Annual Open Exhibition

Other exhibitions

2015   David Zwirner Friends Seminary Art Exhibition

2015   Sothebys New York Take Home A Nude Exhibition

2014   Russell Gallery Summer and Winter Shows

2014   Moorwood Art Summer and Winter Shows, London and Somerset

2013   Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition

2013   Jenna Burlingham Fine Art

2013   Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize

2013   Still Alive, Twenty Still Life Painters at the Mall Galleries

2012   Russell Gallery Summer and Winter Shows

2012    Moncreiffe Bray Autumn Show

2009   Josie Eastwood Fine Art Summer Exhibition

2009   Lynn Painter Stainers Art Prize

2008   The Threadneedle Art Prize, Mall Galleries

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