Front cover:
Round the Gluepot (detail), February 2022
Oil on board
35.8 x 48 ins / 91 x 122 cm
The Boatyard, April 2021
Oil on board
12 x 12.7 ins / 30.6 x 32.3 cm
Blue Skys, July 2021
Oil on board
7.7 x 8.8 ins / 19.5 x 22.5 cm
Old Woman’s Lane, August 2011
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5.7 x 10.2 ins / 14.5 x 26 cm
The land falls away to the right, January 2020
Oil on board
13.7 x 14.2 ins / 34.8 x 36 cm
Literature: Where I Belong, page 19
The Green, December 2020
Oil on card
4.3 x 14.1 ins / 11.1 x 36 cm
Grass for Hay, July 2021
Oil on board
6.6 x 24 ins / 16.8 x 61 cm
A Little Gift, January 2015
Oil on board
5.1 x 5.1 ins / 13 x 13 cm
Ivy, January 2022 (tray)
13.1 x 18.5 ins / 33.5 x 47 cm
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5.9 x 6 ins /15 x 15.2 cm
Oh Mill, 2022
Tea time, short days, 2021
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9.9 x 9.9 ins / 25.2 x 25.2 cm
Rain, April, 2015
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7.8 x 9 ins / 20 x 23 cm
Bird Watching, March 2021
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9.8 x 10 ins / 25 x 25.3 cm
Dark undone village, 2021
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12.7 x 16.1 ins / 32.5 x 41 cm
Midwinter walk as the light is going, December 2021
Oil on board, 20.8 x 48 ins / 53 x 122 cm
Tulip patch, May 2012
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18.1 x 15.3 ins / 46 x 39 cm
The Child, 2012
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5.1 x 4.9 ins / 13 x 12.5 cm
The Neighbour, 2020
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2.9 x 5 ins / 7.5 x 12.7 cm
Literature: Where I Belong, page 80
Hail, rain and sun, May 2021
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10.6 x 10 ins / 27 x 25.5 cm
Lavender, April 2021
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12.6 x 13.7 ins / 32 x 35 cm
The Pull, January 2022
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32.8 x 41.9 ins / 83.5 x 106.5 cm
How do you see yourself?, August, 2021
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7.8 x 14.5 ins / 20 x 37 cm
The last sun of the year, December 31st 2011
Oil on board
18.1 x 14.6 ins / 46 x 37.2 cm
50 ways to leave your lover, December 2020
Oil on card
5.1 x 7.4 ins / 13 x 19 cm
Church Porch Flowers, 2018
Oil on board
7.8 x 9.8 ins / 20 x 25cm
Literature: Where I Belong, page 80
Man finds a perfect piece of hosepipe, 2001
Oil on board
23.8 x 48.2 ins / 60.5 x 122.5 cm
Round the Gluepot, February 2022
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35.8 x 48 ins / 91 x 122 cm
January Willows, 2022
Oil on board
24 x 36 ins / 61 x 91.5 cm
Small Pleasures, July 2021
Oil on card
6.6 x 6.5 ins / 17 x 16.5 cm
Sea Glass, October 2019
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3.3 x 5.9 ins / 8.5 x 15.2 cm
A lovely summer evening, July 2021
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11 x 27.5 ins / 28 x 70 cm
The Shortest Day, December 2018
Oil on card
9.6 x 8 ins / 24.5 x 20.5 cm
Oil on board
5.9 x 7.5 ins / 15 x 19.2 cm
Pier, 2019
Hawthorn delivers, December 2020
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9.9 x 24.9 ins / 25.2 x 63.3 cm
TESSA NEWCOMB
1955 Born in Suffolk, the daughter of artist Mary Newcomb
1972-3 Studied at Norwich School of Art
1973-76 Studied and gained an honours degree from Bath Academy of Art in Suffolk and Norfolk
1977 Advanced printmaking at Wimbledon School of Art
1984 Eastern Arts Grant
1985-89 Taught Adult classes in Art and Ceramics
Has exhibited regularly since 1977, locally, abroad and in London.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE:
1979
1980
1980
1982
1985, 89, 92, 95, 98
1987, 91
1992, 94, 05, 09, 12, 14
1995, 97
From 2003
1996, 2000
2001, 03, 05
From 2004
From 2004
2002, 04, 06, 08, 10, 12, 15, 20
The Annexe Gallery, London
Galerie Ploemp, Oulde Delft, The Netherlands
The Saville Club, London
Fulham Fine Art, London
The School House, Wighton, Norfolk
Christopher Hull Gallery, London
Cork Brick Gallery, Bungay, Suffolk
Primavera, Cambridge
Alde Valley Festival
Chappel Galleries, Colchester
Wyken Hall, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Lena Boyle, Burnham Market, Norfolk 2005, 2007, 2011
Lena Boyle Fine Art, London: 2004, 2005
Crane Kalman Gallery, London
MIXED EXHIBITIONS:
Crane Arts, London
The Mercury Gallery, London
Crane Kalman Gallery, London
Cadogan Contemporary, London
Glyndebourne Opera House Gallery
Messum’s Gallery, London
Thompson’s Gallery, Aldeburgh
Caroline Wiseman, London
WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
INCLUDE:
Bradford Metropolitan Museum
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Archant Art Collection, Norwich
BOOKS:
Tessa Newcomb, Philip Vann, Sansom and Co., 2010
The Adorable Plot: Paintings and Writings about Garden Allotments, Tessa Newcomb and Philip Vann, Sansom and Co., 2012
An Artist in the Garden, A Year in a Suffolk Walled Garden, Tessa Newcomb and Jason
Gathorne-Hardy, Full Circle, 2012
Tessa Newcomb’s Paris, Tessa Newcomb and Philip Vann, Sansom and Co., 2014
Tessa Newcomb: Where I Belong, Sansom and Co., 2021
Thoughts in a House, Julia Blackburn and Tessa Newcomb, Rylett Press, 2022
