Tess Paul

Born and raised in Kelowna, BC, Tess Paul moved to the West Coast to study creative writing and film production at the University of British Columbia. An avid hiker, she sources imagery from personal photos and responds to them in the studio, building her paintings intuitively around a tone or colour, resulting in a harmonious, variously hued monochrome aesthetic.

Biography
  • Tess Paul

Born and raised in Kelowna, BC, Tess Paul moved to the West Coast to study creative writing and film production at the University of British Columbia. An avid hiker, she sources imagery from personal photos and responds to them in the studio, building her paintings intuitively around a tone or colour, resulting in a harmonious, variously hued monochrome aesthetic.

In her latest works, Paul’s personal visual language emerges in undulating rhythms of line and lucid colours. Her hypnotic flow with the fluorescent punch of Kim Dorland or Tom Thomson expresses the hyperconnectivity and psychic intensity of the unknown that lies at the heart of nature. In approaching the sublime, Paul routes us through dreamlike landscapes to sensuous pacifying effect. As felt in her paintings, there is peace and joy in the surreal enormity of nature and in one’s awareness of being enveloped in something that cannot be fully grasped.


Purcell Mountains, original acrylic local landscape painting by Canadian artist Tess Paul at Effusion Art Gallery in Invermere, BC.
Purcell Mountains 48" X 60" (122cm X 152cm)
Burstall Pass, original acrylic landscape painting by Canadian artist Tess Paul at Effusion Art Gallery in Invermere, BC.
SOLD
Burstall Pass
36" X 36" (91cm X 91cm)
Chilcotin Fall, original acrylic landscape painting of the BC Coast mountains in Autumn by Canadian artist Tess Paul at Effusion Art Gallery in Invermere, BC.
Chilcotin Fall
48" X 36" (122cm X 91cm)
Paul.Waddington Range
Waddington Range
40" X 60" (102cm X 152cm)
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