Tessa Pearson
Tessa Pearson BA(Hons) MdesRCA ARWS
b.1955
Lives and works in Effingham, Surrey.
Tessa Pearson studied Printed Textile design at UCA Farnham and the Royal College of Art, where she won the Courtaulds Prize and was commissioned by Liberty of London to produce a collection of printed silks. As Tessa Lambert she opened her own print studio and gallery in London and successfully sold her distinctive hand painted silks around the world.
In recent years Tessa has been using printmaking and mixed media as her preferred medium, working almost exclusively on paper creating bold abstract paintings in watermedia, silkscreen painted monotypes and woodblock monoprints using her original techniques.
Renowned for her exceptional use of colour, current work has evolved from sketches of pa tterns and colour experienced in inspirational gardens and interpreted in her very recognisable style.
She is chairman of the Fountain Gallery, an artist co-operative gallery at Hampton Court, Surrey, and is a founding member of the gallery collective i-Contemporary.
Tessa has been a visiting lecturer in printed textiles at Loughborough and St.Martins College of Art, UCA Farnham and the London College of Fashion. She occasionally works as a part time tutor in painting and is a visiting printmaking tutor at Ochre Print Studios.
In 2023 Tessa was elected as an Associate Member of the Royal Watercolour Society.
Tessa exhibits regularly in galleries and art fairs in the UK and internationally and has work in private and corporate collections worldwide.
2024 -Spring exhibition Gallery Nine Bath
RWS Spring exhibition Bankside Gallery
RWS Small Picture Show Bankside Gallery
AAF Hampstead Hayloft Gallery
‘Blooms!’ Solo show Fountain Gallery Hampton Court
2023- Winter exhibition New Ashgate Gallery Farnham
Solo show ‘Prairie Dreams’ Ballroom Arts Aldeburgh
RWS Summer exhibition Bankside Gallery
Printfest Ulverston , Zillah Bell Award prize
Spring exhibition Byard Art Gallery Cambridge
Solo show ‘The Artists Garden’ Watermark Gallery Sept 2021
Monoprint- two-man show New Ashgate Gallery April 2019 Royal Watercolour Society Contemporary Watercolour Open Bankside Gallery, London March 2022 / 2016 / 2015 (Prizewinner) Solo show Great Fosters Egham Jan – April 2016 Florum Sept 2015/16 invited artist New Ashgate Gallery Farnham Winter shows 2015-23 Sarah Wiseman Gallery Oxford Spring /Autumn shows 2015 Solo show Galerie Furwahr Walldurn Germany 2014 Solo show Oil and Water Gallery London SW1 2014 Solo show New Ashgate Gallery Farnham Surrey 2014 AAF Hong Kong with Turner Barnes Gallery 2014 AAF Singapore with Turner Barnes Gallery 2015/18 AAF Battersea with Turner Barnes Gallery 2014/15/16 AAF Hampstead /Battersea with i- Contemporary 2010-22
Brighton Art Fair 2011-16 & West Dean Art Festival 2016/17 Printfest Cumbria 2010-15/23 Solo Shows Fountain Gallery Hampton Court 2008-24 Royal West of England Academy Open Print show 2009
Voted Surrey Artist of the Year 2012-13
