Tessa Perceval was born in Melbourne in 1947, the eldest daughter of the late John Perceval and Mary Boyd. Since 1965 she began painting professionally. Tessa held her first solo exhibition in London in 1971 and since then she has exhibited widely in Australia and England. Throughout her career spanning 40 years as a landscape painter she has travelled extensively, painting on location in Australia, England, France, Italy, Holland, Spain, Corfu, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Tessa’s work is in many private collections internationally and in public collections in Australia. She now lives in with her husband and two sons in Herefordshire on the South Wales Border returning to Australia periodically. Biography  view more paintings...

Artist:    TESSA PERCEVAL (B. 1947-)
Title: Bluebells in Spring Woods, South Wales in Afternoon Light
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 66 x 81cm
Signed: TESSA PERCEVAL Lower left
Provenance:  Artist collection
Price:  $5,500

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Artist:  TESSA PERCEVAL (B. 1947-)
Title: Shoalhaven Reflections Upstream in Afternoon Shade - 2005
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 91 114cm
Signed: TESSA PERCEVAL Lower left
Provenance:  Artist collection
Price:  $7,800

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Artist:    TESSA PERCEVAL (B. 1947-)
Title:     Water lilies and Gum Reflections
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 76 x 91 x cm
Signed: TESSA PERCEVAL Lower left
Provenance:  Artist collection
Price:     $7,500
 

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Artist:    TESSA PERCEVAL (B. 1947-)
Title: Waterlilies, Reflections and Diving Bird
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 76 x 91cm
Signed: TESSA PERCEVAL Lower left
Provenance:  Artist collection
Price:  SOLD

Artist:    TESSA PERCEVAL (B. 1947-)
Title:      WATERFALL in Shoalhaven
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 91 x 75 cm
Signed: TESSA PERCEVAL Lower right
Price:     SOLD

Artist:    TESSA PERCEVAL
Title:     WATER LILIES
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 76 x 90cm
Signed: TESSA PERCEVAL Lower right
Price:     SOLD

Artist:    TESSA PERCEVAL
Title:     SHOALHAVEN BUSH
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 75 x 91cm
Signed: TESSA PERCEVAL Lower right
Price:     SOLD

Artist:    TESSA PERCEVAL
Title:     SHOALHAVEN BUSH
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 74 x 91cm
Signed: TESSA PERCEVAL Lower right
Price:     SOLD
 

Artist:  TESSA PERCEVAL (B. 1947-)
Title: View through the Valley above Fitzroy Falls
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 91 x 76cm
Signed: TESSA PERCEVAL Lower left
Provenance:  Artist collection
Price:  SOLD

Artist:    TESSA PERCEVAL
Title:     SHOALHAVEN BUSH
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 91 x 74cm
Signed: TESSA PERCEVAL Lower right
Price:     SOLD
 

Artist:    TESSA PERCEVAL
Title:     MANGROVE TREES
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 78 x 92cm
Signed: TESSA PERCEVAL Lower right
Price:     SOLD

Artist:    TESSA PERCEVAL
Title:      COUNTRY GARDEN c. the 70's
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 48 x 45cm
Signed: TESSA PERCEVAL Lower right
Price:     SOLD

TESSA PERCEVAL Biography

TESSA PERCEVAL was born in Melbourne in 1947, the eldest daughter of the late John Perceval and Mary Boyd. She spent her childhood in Melbourne enjoying the family background of painting and pottery before going to London with her family in 1963. Upon the family returned to Australia in 1965 she began painting professionally. Tessa held her first solo exhibition in London in 1971 and since then she has exhibited widely in Australia and England. Throughout her career spanning 40 years as a landscape painter she has travelled extensively, painting on location in Australia, England, France, Italy, Holland, Spain, Corfu, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Tessa’s work is in many private collections internationally and in public collections in Australia. She now lives in with her husband and two sons in Herefordshire on the South Wales Border returning to Australia periodically.

EXHIBITIONS:
1971, Hilton Gallery, London;
1972, Australian Galleries, Melbourne;
1973, Australian Galleries, Melbourne;
1976, Australian Galleries, Melbourne;
1976, Bonython Galleries, Sydney;
1977 Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle, NSW;
1977 Phillip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane;
1978 Australian Galleries, Melbourne;
1979 Qantas Gallery, London; 1979 Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney;
1980 Chapel Vale Cellars, South Australia; 1981 Abercrombie Galleries, Melbourne;
1995 Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle, NSW;
1997 The Best of Boyd’s - Reaching Beyond the Time, Galeria Aniela Fine Art Gallery and Sculpture Park, Kangaroo Valley, NSW;
2005 The Boyd’s - An Artistic Dynasty since 1858 – Wagner Art Gallery, Sydney;
2005 The Boyd’s – Solander Gallery, Canberra. Since 1974, her work has been represented in numerous prestigious Group Exhibitions in Australia and England.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Bundanon Collection, NSW;
The Gold Coast Arts Centre;
John and Sunday Reed Collection, Heide Art Gallery, Victoria;
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Australia

PUBLICATIONS REFERENCE:
The Art of the Boyd’s, P.Dobrez & P.Herbst; Artists and Galleries of Australia M.Germaine; Dictionary of Woman Artists of Australia, M.Germaine; The Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, McCullock; The Journal Of Australian Art, 1990; The Boyds: Post Colonial Retrospective, P.Dobrez; Australian Art Auction Records, E. Craig; Australian Art Sales Digest www.aasd.com.au