Tessa Newcomb

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A painter in oil, with scenes of the Suffolk countryside and coastline dominating her work with Suffolk a place of odd encounters, an unkempt land and seascape featuring working figures, dogs, boats, churchyards, and allotments, all portrayed in her distinctive style.

Newcomb exhibited at the Royal Academy and had other mixed exhibitions at Panter and Hall and Mercury Gallery in London and Edinburgh and solo shows at Annexe Gallery, Wimbledon and at Christopher Hull Gallery, London from 1987 and at Chappel Galleries, Essex from 1996; Crane Kalman Gallery from 2002 and with Lena Boyle at Ainscough Contemporary Art and locally at Cork Brick Gallery, Bungay and The Strand, Aldeburgh.
Newcomb has also completed several book jacket illustrations including for Julia Blackburn's 'Daisy in the Desert' and 'The Emperor's Last Island'.
She has work in several important collections including Bradford Metropolitan Museum; Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester; Strawberry Hill College and Ocean and Transport.