Tessa Spencer Pryse

Tessa Spencer Pryse, RBA is a British Impressionist artist based in Wivenhoe, Essex.

[1] The daughter of Gerald Spencer Pryse, a noted Welsh lithographer, Spencer Pryse had an unusual childhood, attending schools in France, rural Wales and Switzerland.

[2] She gained a scholarship to Byam Shaw Art School aged 17, where she met her future husband and father of her two children.

[1] Spencer Pryse specialises in oil and watercolour, and her preferred surface is fine oil-primed canvas.

I paint what I see and search for what I feel to be the essence of a scene in landscape, figure or interior.