The Saturday class is a place where you can bring your ideas to fruition and work on art across a wide range of media. Tessa Joy offers both individual advice to help you progress with your artwork and small tutorials on a wide range of visual arts topics. Participants are always learning something. Discussion and sharing of ideas between art group members is encouraged. Everyone works at their own pace and on their own work. The class suits those who already have some ideas and skills, at least enough to get started on a drawing or painting.
What do I bring? Bring along your own paints/pastels/pencils, brushes and paper/canvas (new or unfinished project) – whatever materials you have.
Tessa and her artworks
Students working
Tutor Profile
Tessa Joy kept extensive diaries and sketched throughout her earlier life while travelling through Australia, North and South America. She returned to Perth to study Visual Arts only to leave half way through, to attend an art school in Madrid. Here she studied for 2 years and fell in love with the Mediterranean culture before returning to Australia to complete her Bachelor degree. She was based in Fremantle for many years, teaching art and exhibiting as well as being involved in the local art scene including life drawing, performance, music and dance. Leaving her World’s End Studio, she moved to Melbourne in 2015. She has tutored for Box Hill Art Group for 8 years and completed a Master in Art Curatorship. She currently teaches at TAFE and works for Heide Museum of Modern Art.
Her art practice spans painting, drawing, printmaking and, most recently, ceramics. She is interested in working from life as well as sourcing inspiration from her own past and stories told by others. While her painting style is bold full colour, she also explores detail and fine line work in drawing and print. A keen interest in history and language informs both her artwork and teaching style. She aims to expose her students to a wide range of ideas while sharing the technical skills they need to express themselves.
To see her art go to: http://www.tessajoyart.com or follow arttessajoy on Instagram.