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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 and is regularly returning to Australia.

COLLECTIONS Represented:
University of Cambridge
the New Hall Art Collection
; Bundanon Trust - Collection of the Bundanon Trust - The Gift to the Nation of Arthur and Yvonne Boyd; Heide Museum of Modern Art (John & Sunday Reed Collection); Newcastle City Council Region Art Gallery; Gold Coast Arts Centre as well as private and corporate collections in Australia, England and around the world.

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

Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 91 x 76cm
Signed:
TESSA PERCEVAL Lower left
Provenance:  Artist collection
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Title: Waterlilies, Reflections and Diving Bird
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 76 x 91cm
Signed:
TESSA PERCEVAL Lower left
Provenance:  Artist collection
 
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Title:     SHOALHAVEN BUSH
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 75 x 91cm
Signed Lower right:
TESSA PERCEVAL
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Title:     WATER LILIES
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 76 x 90cm
Signed Lower right:
TESSA PERCEVAL
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Title:     SHOALHAVEN BUSH
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 74 x 91cm
Signed Lower right:
TESSA PERCEVAL
Price:    
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Title:     SHOALHAVEN BUSH
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 91 x 74cm
Signed Lower right:
TESSA PERCEVAL
Price:    
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Title:      WATERFALL in Shoalhaven
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 91 x 75 cm
Signed: Lower right
TESSA PERCEVAL
Price:    
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Title:     MANGROVE TREES
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 78 x 92cm
Signed Lower right:
TESSA PERCEVAL
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Title:      COUNTRY GARDEN c. the 70's
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 48 x 45cm
Signed Lower right:
TESSA PERCEVAL
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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
John and Sunday Reed Collection, Heide Art Gallery, Victoria
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Australia

The Gold Coast Arts Centre

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

 

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