Hello, I’m Tess, I am not a simple thing, but I am mostly simple when it comes to things.. I am artfully improvised, which is a poetic way of saying that I am mostly making things up as I go.

I wear many hats: Woman, Lover, Mother, Artist.

My heart finds home seaside on Mollymook Beach, in the very house that sparked our adventures around the world and where my lover proposed. Now, we’re back here after 14 years of travel with our three daughters, creating a base for further adventures.

These days, my creative lean is towards writing. I’m in a spacious season, exploring my love for prose and poetry, diving into the unknown rhythms of long-form writing. I find deep satisfaction in merging language with visual art through film photography—it’s a newer path that resonates with me.

Dance has been my lifelong companion, stemming from my early years as a dancer and choreographer. Today, my art is an intertwining of movement with other mediums like paint and analogue photography. Dance is the heartbeat that infuses my work with a sense of motion—a silent yet powerful influence shaping my artistic expression.

My art is deeply influenced by the diverse places we’ve lived, each experience stitching itself into the fabric of my creative journey.

Driven by a thirst for growth, I navigate life’s cyclical phases like water, embracing the creative process as intrinsic to my existence. Creativity, for me, isn’t an extension but a fundamental part of life itself. It’s about seeking and celebrating beauty, staying awake to the wonder around me.

In the kingdom of my childhood nurtured an innate process, where creativity as a practice is woven into the fabric of life, rather than an extension of it.

This is my daily practice—an art of observation, a pursuit of seeing beauty.

To be awake to it is the undercurrent guiding how my art materializes from mind to actualization, even amidst the fullness of life as a mother of three. My phone notes are filled with observations, fragments of sentences, screenshots of captivating moments, and voice memos capturing wisdom from conversations—little treasures stored for exploration in the quiet moments.

Currently, my phone notes are the seedbed for an entire book in the making…

“When you regain a sense of your life as a journey of discovery, you return to rhythm with yourself. When you take the time to travel with reverence, a richer life unfolds before you. Moments of beauty begin to braid your days.” ― John O'Donohue, Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace

Balancing the demands of life has always been a nuanced dance, particularly since embracing motherhood while navigating the dynamic electricity of family life.

Noticing and preserving the moments around me allows me to gather beauty from the everyday, even amidst its fullness. And when windows of time open, presenting collected treasures that beckon for expression—

I translate them into art.