Born in Suffolk in 1955, Tessa Newcomb is the daughter of the artist Mary Newcomb. She attended the Norwich School of Art from 1972 and received a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Bath Academy of Art in 1976. In 1977 she attended a course on printmaking at the Wimbledon School of Art.
Newcomb’s first solo exhibition was held at the Annexe Gallery, Wimbledon in 1979. Her work was included in mixed exhibitions at Crane Kalman Gallery between 1995 and 1997 and nine solo shows were held here from 2002- 2023. She has works in public collections including the Bradford Metropolitan Museum, the Archant Art Collection, Norwich and the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.
The Suffolk countryside and country events feature predominantly in Newcomb’s paintings. Tessa and author Phillip Vann worked on a book entitled ‘Tessa Newcomb’ (Sansom & Company, 2010). Tessa also published a number of books with Sansom & Company including ‘The Adorable Plot’, 2012, and ‘Tessa Newcomb’s Paris’, 2014. She also collaborated with Jason Gathorne-Hardy on ‘An Artist in the Garden’, published by Full Circle Editions, 2012.