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Tess Newall is a decorative artist who creates hand-painted murals and homewares.

20/10/2022

When a painted piece of furniture really comes to life!

18/10/2022

Decorative panels for a cabin bed, in progress....

13/10/2022

🔆 I am extremely excited to be in this week’s Country Life with my first collection of wallpapers and lampshades, Folk Flower. As a decorative artist it’s a dream come true to begin making products which give spaces the same hand-painted feel as my work. (that said, i will always keep painting murals too!)

In a nod to the simplest “folk” decoration of walls, this design evolved from experiments with potato printing during lockdown. To keep the charm and imperfection of the original artwork, we have had these traditionally printed in Lancashire using a method where the paint is laid onto the paper using rollers, with the paint sitting on the surface of the paper so you can feel its lovely texture as with a traditional blockprint.

Thank you so much .kime for noticing a sneak peek a while ago and for asking to feature these, and have a chat about my journey so far, i feel incredibly lucky and grateful. Photos by .

Samples available from our website! 🔆

03/10/2022

🌾 Herbarium Wildflower wallpaper in the beautiful home of . I love how the lime wash ground catches the light in different intensities of colour ✨

🧺 Soon you will be able to “Add sample to basket” on our website, but for now please email studio@tessnewall.com to be sent one. Full collection launching soon!

29/09/2022

Bloomsbury Bunch!

07/09/2022

📚Back to school and in the studio, and a shout out to say i am giving a Lampshade Workshop at on 21st November. It is a lovely way to wander the house and garden, be inspired by the decorated walls, furniture and lampshades brimming inside, and paint something which you will take home with you! I love these days. Link in my stories to book.

16/08/2022

🍑 ☁️ an image from our Mediterranean moodboard, holiday dreaming via the studio…

09/08/2022

🌺 The return of the border! Wallpaper borders were traditionally used to hide imperfections on a wall, or to tidy the edge of a wallpaper. But they are also a great way to add a decorative detail to a room. We are working on a collection of borders in the studio which i am very excited about...

This border I handpainted for gives a similar feel to decorative handpainting (for only £60 a roll 😉), along the top of a plain painted wall or along joinery details like the cornice of a wardrobe, or up some stairs ... 💫

(Link in bio! One day when our webshop is up and running i will be able to link posts i hope!)

08/08/2022

‘Furlongs’ by Eric Ravilious (1934)

This is a cottage very close to ours, also last last house at the end of a track under the South Downs. It was lived in by the artist Peggy Angus. It is harvest time around us at the moment, golden nugget haybales popping up all over the place, I can’t stop taking photos of them whenever I pass them early morning or evening.

Peggy sublet Furlongs from the farmer from 1933, derelict with no water or electricity. The farmer was reluctant but she set up camp painting under an umbrella until he let her move in. She created a remarkable home and it became a 2nd home to friends like Ravilious. The loo was a tin bucket in the garden shed - she called the way of life at Furlongs “a test of friendship”. On Midsummer’s Eve she held a party in the hollow of the dewpond just above Furlongs, where she sang folk and revolutionary songs and drank a lot of whiskey (according to local friends).

Her philosophy was that art was an integral part of life, that people should decorate the spaces they inhabit, the furniture or utensils they use, the clothing they wear. Her jumper matches her fireplace! She taught art at North London Collegiate girls’ school and her curriculum included “magic art” and medieval heraldic symbols, decorating the walls and furniture of the school during lessons. Her own work has only recently been given proper recognition and her house should have been preserved. Since she died in 1993, Furlongs was again derelict. We were lucky to look around it just before we moved into our cottage which is where most of these pics are from. It was then refurbished for rental, sadly stripped of most of Peggy’s work I am told

I love to think of her here, painting and printing, during the harvest. Same views, same harvest, same rules to try and live by 🌾

05/08/2022

- 🪡🪁 Isn’t it funny how different things can look in different environments! Painted pieces always come to life with fabrics and objects around them. I painted this cabin bed 2yrs ago this week, deep into lockdown and when i only had my garden studio which it didn’t even fit into. The bed was just a set for a photoshoot so i happily now have it back in the studio, naked again! And I’m the one looking unusually dressed up this time, in 🍒

03/08/2022

🌷 Researching for a large trellised courtyard project and i stumbled across the Goëss Apartments in Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, painted by Johan Bergl between 1768 and 1777. The 3 rooms were commissioned by the Empress Maria Theresa (Marie Antoinette’s mother). One of her other daughters had been scarred by smallpox and felt shy to go outdoors, so the decor was intended to bring the garden inside for her.

Bergl used drawings of specimens of exotic fauna and flora brought back from scientific expeditions. He painted onto canvas which was applied to all the walls, including jib doors, making these rooms feel like whole worlds. After the death of the Empress in 1780 the murals were covered over with felt, and they were rediscovered until 1891, perfectly preserved 🌱

📸 Alexander Eugen Koller

02/08/2022

🎨 A day spent painting garden furniture with House & Garden which I hope might inspire people to get their brushes out! All of these are painted using Cuprinol Garden Shades paint. I drew pattern inspiration from the majolica ceramic tradition of Deruta, a medieval hilltop town in Umbria, in the hope of making our garden feel like Italy 🌹

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