Tess Glen

Tess Glen is a visual artist whose work encompasses drawing, painting, and printmaking. She studied Painting at ECA before taking up a scholarship place on The Drawing Year at The Royal Drawing School, graduating in 2020. She has exhibited in the RSA, Christies and Hidden Door Festival and completed residencies at Dumfries House and the Borgo Pignano estate. Most recently she completed a month-long residency at The Funen Printmaking Workshop in Odense, Denmark. She is a member of Edinburgh Printmakers and currently has a studio at St Margaret’s House.

Tess works from observation, imagination and memory. Her work is connected to place and its potential to hold real and imagined stories. She is interested in working with different pictorial forms inspired by comic books, stained glass windows and tapestries to tell stories. In her work across mediums, she plays with the relationship between words and images, creating images that can be read in numerous ways and benefit from being viewed several times.