Tess Hawke

Tess Hawke is based in the beautiful city of Cape Town, South Africa. Although she never carried art as a formal subject at school, Tess attended art lessons as an extra-mural throughout her school career, entering a number of local childhood exhibitions.

After school, Tess took a long break from art, to persue her career as an occupational therapist, but continued to have a deep passion for anything creative!  Feeling the need to persue art again in more recent years, particularly in the area of watercolor, Tess joined Inge Semple's watercolor classes in 2016. For Tess, this has been an amazing journey of creating, learning and exploring watercolor to it's fullest, together with other mediums, such as charcoal, ink work and mixed media. 

Tess has entered a couple of local exhibitions over the past few years. She recieved Honorable Mention in her first watercolor exhibition ever,  organised by IWSSA in 2018. 

Tess has a particular passion for the tight, more detailed aspect of watercolor. However, she also enjoys experimenting with a looser style from time to time, which is what drew her to watercolor in the firt place!