After gaining her BA (Hons) Fine Art at Reading University, Tessa went on to achieve a Higher Diploma Postgraduate Painting (City & Guilds of London Art School) and was elected ROI (Mall Galleries) in 1993.
Over the past 20 years Tessa has had her paintings accepted for The Royal Academy Summer Shows, The Discerning Eye and The Royal Institute of Painters in Oils at the Mall Galleries, London. Her paintings have been shown at numerous exhibitions throughout the South of England, London and the Midlands: as well as in Monaco, Paris and in Manhattan, New York.