Descendant of Venus Painting

. Originally a portrait artist, Tessa has been holding exhibitions, painting commissions and has her work in private collections around the world. Having lived abroad for almost 30 years in the USA, Brazil (where she had four children) and Cameroon, she returned to the UK a little over a decade ago, only to then go through the experience and recovery of an aggressive cancer - "perhaps one of the reasons for my interest in painting big, healthy breasts!" "I was inspired by the Venus of Willendorf, a small, very early sculpture of woman, and I enjoy the sculptor's obvious appreciation of woman in all her rounded glory. I have been painting a series of nude women based on this appreciation for the natural curves and roundness, without distractions of hands and feet and often even without their faces. In the words of Pablo Neruda "Full woman fleshly Apple, hot moon..."