Original - Comes with COA certificate of Authenticity
Acrylic on canvas
135 x 80 cm
Contemporary Aboriginal Art
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Wild Bush Flowers by Tess M 135x80cm
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Tess is a vivacious, joyful, very private (Doesn't like giving her photo) and super academically accomplished older lady.
Of Wales and Irish heritage, from her mother's side, she was born in a small village on the Mediterranean Spanish coast, she migrated with her family to the United Stated when very young, completing her secondary schooling at Wayne School, Chicago, Illinois, and later, a Diploma of Fine Art at Famous Artists School, Wesport, Connecticut at about 1974.
Then, the family settled in Australia about 55 years ago and she has been living in Darwin since then.
In coming to Australia, she became an Australian citizen, continue painting, mainly commissioned works and decided to start academic studies, this time in cultural anthropology, as she felt she wanted to learn deeply about people's societies and cultures and particularly those of the Australian Aborigines.
After a few years, she gained her BA from Charles Darwin University (at the time Darwin Institute of Technology) majoring in Anthropology, Sociology and Psychology.
After this she when to James Cook University in Queensland where she completed her Bachelors of Arts with Honors in Cultural Anthropology, with a thesis on the Australian Aboriginals.
Following this, she when to the University of Queensland, and after a few years, got her PhD in Cultural and
Social anthropology.
She worked as an anthropologist, but always also dedicating her spared time painting.
She likes to paint in diverse mediums, but most of all in oils, acrylics and pastels, being her works, landscapes, portraits, flowers and more.
Tess has a very closed connection to Aboriginal art and culture, not only because she is an anthropologist, but because she has lived in the Northern Territory for so many years interacting closely with them, and also because she is aunt to two Aboriginal boys, sons of her brother who is married to a native Aboriginal lady of Badu island, one of the Torres Strait Islands in the north of Australia.
The theme of her flower paintings reflects very vividly this closeness to Aboriginal art and culture, ideas, symbols and behaviours, giving to her art pieces a very special beauty and meaning of a subject that she deeply, knows, lives and loves.