Tessa Spanton SWA BSc Hons PGCE                     Artist Writer Tutor

 

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Artist

Elected member of The Society of Women Artists 2001

Currently exploring abstracts and semi abstract landscapes working with acrylic or oil on board or canvas.

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Writer

Has contributed to several books, is a regular contributor to Leisure Painter Magazine and has also written for Peinture sur Soie a French silk painting magazine.

 

Tutor 

Tessa is a qualified teacher with a Post Graduate Certificate in Education from London University and many years’ experience of teaching painting. running classes and workshops in acrylic, watercolour or silk painting as well as online. Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Silk painting workshop  Paint a silk scarf  

 The Mall Galleries London silk painting demonstration during an exhibition of the Society of Women Artists  

 Exhibitions and galleries include:
 

 Society of Women Artists annual exhibition Mall Galleries London

 

 Society of Botanical Artists, Westminster Gallery, London

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 Gallery Tresco, Scilly A Patchwork of Paintings July 24

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 Vellum Mill Gallery Carshalton Lavender Haze July 24

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 Mayne Gallery Devon Secret Postcard Auction 23

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 The Old Lock Up Gallery Cromford Secret Postcard sale 23​

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 Paris with Salon ARGA at Gagny, through  the Town Twinning Association.

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 Switzerland,  ‘Champery et ses Alentours.’

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 Mottisfont Abbey and the Botanic Gardens, Ventnor, Isle of Wight with the Society of Floral Painters.

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 Florum at Sevenoaks Nature Reserve and Goodnestone Park.

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 Chenies Manor, Bucks, with Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals arts fund raiser
                 

 Pashley Manor, East Sussex

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 Corner Gallery, Carshalton Beeches, Surrey

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 Calladoodles Carshalton, Surrey

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 Carshalton Artists Open Studios CAOS

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Lockdown Art: Creativity Released, Honeywood Museum, 2020

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Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital online exhibition 2020

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Royal Marsden Hospital 2020 Painting added to their permanent collection.

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Mine Gallery, Carshalton.

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Patchings Art Centre, Notts

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Denbies Wine Estate Dorking

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Westcott Gallery, Westcott, Dorking, Surrey.

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Wow Gallery, Dorking Surrey

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Whitehall, Cheam, Solo exhibition, and painting demonstrations.

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