Tessa Gwynne

Biography

I have returned to painting over the last sixteen years or so, having relocated from Cardiff to the Cotswolds in 2009 and joined the Guiting Power Art Group. Although I did a year's Foundation Course at Cardiff art college after leaving school, I hadn’t painted much in the interim, except for a few attempts here and there. I am now retired and so able to give my painting more time. My favourite medium is oil and I’ve also painted with Nigel Fletcher’s group at Sibford. I feel I’ve learned a lot more about tone, observation and composition since studying there and I use water mixable oils since then. My plan since 2018 was to paint more en plein air, weather permitting, also to try more sketching and to build up to more complex and larger paintings. I aim to capture the feel and essence of the place or subject, rather than a photorealistic image.