TESSA SPANTON BSc.Hons, PGCE, SWA, SFP, Guild of Silk Painters

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Title: Tropical Water Lily                                   Title: Pink Parrot Tulip

Medium: Water based paint on silk                           Medium: Water based paint on silk 

Size: 69.5x59cm                                              Size: 48x43cm

Title: Canna Durban                                        Title: Zantedeschia

Medium: Water based paint on silk                          Medium: Water based paint on silk

Size: 55x65cm                                               Size: 40x50cm

Title: Birds of Paradise Strelitzia regina                              Title: Iris Ensata

Medium: Water based paint on silk                                      Medium:  Water based paint on

Size: 56x46cm                                                         silk, with Gold Ormoline background

                                                                            Size: 30x37cm

Tessa paints mainly in watercolour, on paper and on silk. She is a qualified teacher with a Post Graduate Certificate in Education from London University and many years experience of teaching painting. Tessa runs classes and workshops in watercolour or silk painting, mainly around the Surrey area. She has contributed to several books. 

      Exhibitions include;

• LONDON  Mall Galleries with the Society of Women Artists
• Westminster Gallery with the Society of Botanical Artists.
• PARIS with Salon ARGA at Gagny, through  the Town Twinning Association.
• SWITZERLAND,  ‘Champery et ses Alentours.’
• Mottisfont Abbey and the Botanic Gardens, Ventnor, Isle of Wight with the Society of Floral Painters.
• Westcott Gallery, Westcott, Dorking, Surrey.
• Whitehall, Cheam, Solo exhibition and painting demonstrations.

Pictures sold have gone as far a field as the USA, New Zealand, Japan, Korea and Chile