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A more modern view is the theory that all Earth’s living things and their surroundings are so closely intertwined that they form one single complex system. This painting does not attempt to take on this amazing view, but for me the image shows a tiny slivver of a mosaic of creatures, vegetation, earth, sea and sky. It reflects the feeling I have as a gardener. Growing food, means I need to work with many things - soil, climate, seed, weather, location, insects, animals, disease- as I try to build a community where the plants I want to grow can best thrive, without destroying either the local or the wider environment. Ecosystems work this out for themselves of course! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5586c9abe4b0892e07189903/1643370201435-UKO3O8NZNLJHAZFNKNTT/reef-life+TJC.jpeg stories - Make it stand out Reef Life When UK hosted COP26 in 2021 this painting was chosen to be shown in the main concourse at Glasgow. It’s an image based on the life of a warm water reef. These coral reefs occur in shallow waters and are built by tiny colony forming creatures, who make a hard shell for themselves and the energy producing algae they live with. Corals are sometimes called the ‘rain forests of the seas’ as they team with life, but they are sadly very sensitive to any environmental change. This painting was built organically, without an initial plan but I knew I wanted the vigour of colour and the suggestion of movement within the form. You may spot the outline of a large fish. He just turned up one day which was nice! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5586c9abe4b0892e07189903/1643372819904-F3VQ2Y1BP3JSYPEUBC2P/IMG_2717.jpeg stories - Life in the Balance I started this painting with three ingredients in mind; water, air and earth. I allowed the yellow light to stream in and the pale blue water to appear. In response to shapes formed by my initial drawings I then scattered dark colours in and around them. Everything on the canvas was then allowed to interact, all elements changing and responding, each to one another. As I continued I glimpsed a view of a very busy world, and that busy world appeared to be sitting on a knife edge. It gave me pause for thought. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5586c9abe4b0892e07189903/1643296654825-WRJVDYL7V4I5GBGAMC2H/IMG_5271.jpeg stories - Of the River and Beyond This painting is my take on a wooded river landscape. From my living room I can occasionally see a heron patiently fishing in a small tributary of the main river beyond. Rivers bring life to a landscape, and wooded rivers are especially diverse ecosystems. The colour yellow, which underpins this painting is for me a very optimistic colour, full of life and vigour. Darker colours express the hidden life of the woodland, and a criss cross of lines reaching out from the course of the river, touch all parts of the surrounding landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5586c9abe4b0892e07189903/1547048315818-PCGHK7MJMPA9642VZI8D/IMG_1633.jpg stories - Heading towards Spring I live on the water-meadows of the river Test. Every spring and autumn we are treated to skeins of calling geese flying overhead, as the make for their feeding grounds. All over the planet huge numbers of creatures engage in unimaginable feats of endurance and navigation as they cross the globe in search of the living conditions they need. This painting is inspired by these fragile journeys. Colours move from cool to warm and dark marks guide the journey onwards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5586c9abe4b0892e07189903/1693924902106-LBA2W8RAO508BV1W049I/IMG_2145.jpg stories - Mother Tree Trees are real enablers of biodiversity, providing shelter, food and refuge for many ceatures.They also have influence over the wider landscape, nurturing plants around them, absorbing and storing carbon while producing oxygen, enriching the soil through their relationship with fungi, stabilising land, and helping to improve drainage. The right tree in the right place can do all this. My totem mother tree was created from an initially barren red landscape. As the tree emerged I noticed that initial drawings had provided a network of lines that both tied the tree into the soil, and spread its influence far and wide. The image had became cooler, the background was enriched, everything had changed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5586c9abe4b0892e07189903/e750d212-e811-4187-b133-45834a7a889d/IMG_3111.jpg stories - Warming World All my canvases start with a colour wash, over which I draw quite randomly in grey paint. This painting started with a wash of hot red and magenta, and the drawing phase produced sweeping curves across and surrrounding the central area of the canvas. I became fascinated by these curves, and what lay within and beyond them. Eventually one curve seemed to predominate, and the reds from the underpainting started to hit full force against the pale blues. A building heat against the calm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5586c9abe4b0892e07189903/2f3529ea-2f04-45cf-b2fd-0dc03c3bd27f/IMG_1377+2.jpg stories - Make it stand out Untold Riches The close relationship between between plant roots and soil fungi is the story of partnership, and a bit of biological magic to me. Trees (and other plants) use sunlight to make sugars, but also need rare soil minerals to grow well. Soil fungi harvest minerals but need energy to expand their search. The trade between the tree roots and their surrounding fungi assists both sides. I wanted this painting to be full of light and colour to get as close as I can to the excitement I feel about this frankly unbelievable process of evolutionary cooperation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5586c9abe4b0892e07189903/18051390-16f7-44a2-8d3c-bac7219b20d6/IMG_4721.jpg stories - Apex This canvas began its life as an experiment. I set out my ingredients - in one corner, the Sun whipping up the weather, in other parts the land, water, and plantlife. I then let all my ingredients interact in shape and colour around a river of red - the flowing energy from the sun, that passes through all ecosystems. Having some structure meant that this was quite a light touch painting, rather than my usual long drawn out search for structure. But there was a surprise. One day I glimpsed the head and claw of a raptor at the heart of the painting. So I allowed the river and plants to become his wing and tail. He made sense to me, he was made out of my ecosystem. Without a well fitting jigsaw of life, there can be no Apex Predator. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5586c9abe4b0892e07189903/1643372126296-MCC3YSBERLOI1KCTGW5W/teemill-logo.jpg stories - Gaia In ancient Greek Mythology Gaia is the ancestral mother of all life. A more modern view is the theory that all Earth’s living things and their surroundings are so closely intertwined that they form one single complex system. This painting does not attempt to take on this amazing view, but for me the image shows a tiny slivver of a mosaic of creatures, vegetation, earth, sea and sky. It reflects the feeling I have as a gardener. Growing food, means I need to work with many things - soil, climate, seed, weather, location, insects, animals, disease- as I try to build a community where the plants I want to grow can best thrive, without destroying either the local or the wider environment. Ecosystems work this out for themselves of course! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5586c9abe4b0892e07189903/66e9f592-7549-4bbf-b62b-f1fe564d43c1/IMG_0102.jpg stories - Feeling the Heat This canvas started with a very pale lemon wash, which I overlaid with gestural marks in thin grey paint. As is often the case, the marks I made were quite organic, populating the canvas with tiny suggestions of living things. By contrast, the first colours I chose were primary red and blue, which soon became an argument between heat and cold, mediated to some extent by softer greys. As I persued this idea, some of the creatures evolved in my mind. Some were trapped by the heat, some running from it, some still blissfully unaware. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5586c9abe4b0892e07189903/1633433097465-XK7291W3PR85M6CLYZVW/IMG_1607.jpg stories - Where Oceans Meet Along the south west coastline of South Africa and in the ocean off the southernmost coast, cold, mineral rich waters from the Atlantic Ocean and Antarctic Oceans well up from the depths and reach the light and the warmth. This results in a huge explosions of sea life there, starting with a rapid increase in the numbers of the tiniest phytoplankton. Rich colours are used to express the vibrancy of life here and the drawing is full suggestions of tiny creatures. The cool colours rub up against the warm, and looping marks and trails of colour reflect the movement of the currents that create it https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5586c9abe4b0892e07189903/1643372126296-MCC3YSBERLOI1KCTGW5W/teemill-logo.jpg stories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5586c9abe4b0892e07189903/1694009869300-6F1FD3AM2U82EVM9FK7T/IMG_1103.jpg stories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5586c9abe4b0892e07189903/1694515762135-OYKGTIRS0PGH7IIKIRYQ/IMG_1111.jpeg stories http://www.tessa-coe.work/contacts daily 0.75 2019-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5586c9abe4b0892e07189903/1438346910620-7ZZ1Q87B14B4X86S1X1D/image-asset.jpeg contacts http://www.tessa-coe.work/text-painting-as-expt daily 0.75 2018-01-27 http://www.tessa-coe.work/welcome daily 1.0 2021-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5586c9abe4b0892e07189903/1515945926062-3YP9LNKATQECSRKKBWUO/way+wide.jpg welcome - how the light gets in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5586c9abe4b0892e07189903/1534330446626-F5RRBANMT6MKI54MSN2D/IMG_1377+copy.jpg welcome - 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