Opening viewing Saturday 2 October, 18h-20h
Exhibition Sunday 3 October - Friday 15 October, 15h-18hPass Sanitaire and Masks Compulsory
In October 2021 there will be an exhibition of works by Tess Tucker.
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Artist
Born in the English county of Cumbria, I grew up and went to school in the Lake District, a region of lakes and mountains. I have been drawing and painting since my school days.
After taking a degree at Manchester University in social science and administration, I joined the Manchester Probation service, with whom I worked until the birth of my daughter. In 1974. I moved with my daughter and husband to Munich, where I worked as a probation officer for the Bavarian Ministry of Justice until 1993.
In 1993 I returned to the UK with my second husband, together we ran a guest house in Cornwall for eleven years, before retiring, and eventually moving to France to live permanently in our home in Lunas, in the department of Hérault.
Whilst living in Cornwall, on the Lizard Peninsula, I was actively involved in setting up a co-operative of artists and eventually founded a co-operative gallery with them.
For a long time, I painted and drew about women, trying to capture their strengths and vulnerabilities, and their ability to survive. This has been an abiding subject for me. However, more recently, my work has increasingly focused on both figurative and abstract interpretation of the landscapes in which I now live, trying to represent what I see in simple shapes and vibrant colours.
After painting in Tuscany in the summer of 2013 with my close friend, the artist Martin Grimshaw, I developed a new way of approaching my work, which often involves my hands, instead of a brush. I work mostly with mixed media - oil paint, pastel, charcoal and acrylic - but I also work with house paint and oil bars.
This exhibition includes the work from my early days in Cornwall, focusing again on women, and occasionally men - and working mostly with models, but not always.
"The Naked Truth"
The very recent work in this exhibition attempts to emphasise emotion, through using paint in a variety of ways to express those feelings which are a part of all our lives at some time or another: anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, happiness and love. I am using a variety of techniques, many of which are for me experimental.
The images are often ugly, rough, scary even, but I hope that the feelings which I try to express in this clumsy way, will strike a chord...they are about what life is really like and, sometimes, feelings which we so often try to hide. Of which we are sometimes ashamed. Thus the title - "The naked Truth".
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