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Since completing the Heatherley’s figurative painting diploma in 2002 Tessa Coleman has done portrait commissions, and other work in oils,  and has exhibited at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, The Threadneedle Art Prize, and other group exhibitions both in London and Elsewhere. Both her figure paintings and other work are done from preparatory drawings and direct from life, and in that sense all the pieces are ‘portraits’ whether the subject is a person, object or landscape. Particularly in the still lives, the objects being portrayed are less important in themselves, but provide the starting point to explore the colour, spatial and geometric relationships of the image. Whatever the subject matter, all the pieces tend to be about rigorous drawing and the expressive use of colour to describe the form.

Selected exhibitions:

2004 Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition

2006 Forged From Life Exhibition, The Gallery in Cork Street                                                                                 

2006 Moonbeam Trust Annual Exhibition

2008 Forged From Life Exhibition, The Gallery in Cork Street

2008 The Threadneedle Art Prize, Mall Galleries

2008 London and Amsterdam Affordable Art Fairs with Morgan Boyce Gallery

2009 Josie Eastwood Fine Art Summer Exhibition

2009 Lynn Painter Stainers Art Prize, London 

2009 New English Art Club Annual Exhibition, winner of the Cecil Jospe prize   

Please click on the gallery page above to see some pictures