Tessa trained in Ceramics at Goldsmiths College, London 1981-84. On leaving college she developed a method of sawdust firing for surfaces that were high fired and internally glazed making it possible for them to hold water. Her vessel ranges are both hand-built and slip-cast, sculptural in form but always functional.
Inspiration for decoration is distilled from a process that begins with photographs taken whilst travelling – rock formations, beach debris, horizons, buildings and their surfaces, museum artefacts. Forms and contours are often elliptical and the addition of coloured slips and the smoke marks from a sawdust firing help to create a three-dimensional quality of depth. Other surfaces are an interplay of incised lines on vessels that have been textured, built up, impressed or distorted. A hint of colour comes from metal oxides mixed into clay and glazes.
Tessa has exhibited worldwide. Her work is held in many collections worldwide.
PRODUCT CODE:TW92Y1267
PRODUCT CODE:TW92Y1280
PRODUCT CODE:TW92Y1261
PRODUCT CODE:TW92Y1276
PRODUCT CODE:TW92Y1273
PRODUCT CODE:TW92Y1278
PRODUCT CODE:TW92Y1264
PRODUCT CODE:TW92Y1268
PRODUCT CODE:TW92Y1260
PRODUCT CODE:TW92Y1266
PRODUCT CODE:TW92Y1269
PRODUCT CODE:TW92Y1258
PRODUCT CODE:TW92Y1279
PRODUCT CODE:TW92Y1263
PRODUCT CODE:TW92Y1259
PRODUCT CODE:TW92Y1257
PRODUCT CODE:TW92Y1256
PRODUCT CODE:TW92Y1254
PRODUCT CODE:TW92Y1247
PRODUCT CODE:TW92Y1246
PRODUCT CODE:TW92Y1248
PRODUCT CODE:TW92Y1250
PRODUCT CODE:TW92Y1251
PRODUCT CODE:TW92Y1232
PRODUCT CODE:TW92Y1270
PRODUCT CODE:TW92Y1271
PRODUCT CODE:TW92Y1239