Tess Zahn is a Brighton based artist, photographer, and educator, lives close to the South Downs and shares a home with her husband, two children and their beloved Bengal.
She has worked as a freelance photographer for about 25 years adapting her skills, providing fresh, bright imagery for the entertainment, education, and wedding industries.
She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, where she specialised in sculpture and installation and an MA in photography from Brighton University.
Tess’s fine art practice explores reoccurring themes centred around the cyclical rhythm of time within mother nature, rites of passage, memory, mythologies and the female.
Experimenting with either alternative photographic processes such as the cyanotype, collage or digital photography, Tess aims to produce poetic visual metaphors, either by abstracting the image, layering, overlapping, or building upon the geometric intricacies of delicate plant life, sometimes held against the monumental quality of trees and female skeletal structures. Tess’ digital collages of macro floral compositions combined with elements of colour, pattern and texture aim to honour the ephemeral yet hugely vital qualities of nature.
In 2007 she began teaching photography and art, craft and design and has a real passion to inspire and engage students by sharing her knowledge and techniques. There is nothing that gives her more pleasure than helping students experiment and thrive creatively, assisting with UCAS applications and ensuring her students think critically in a wider cultural context.
Tess says, ‘In my teaching practice my aim is to encourage autonomy and confidence as my students develop their own visual language by exploring the vast possibilities in the creative industries.’
Tess holds a part time teaching position alongside her own personal art practice, freelance work, and facilitation of workshops.
FOR FINE ART PRINTS AND ORIGINALS:
Please see her Art portfolios pages for fine art photographic prints, original collage pieces and cyanotype prints. Online shop coming soon!
ART AND DESIGN EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT:
Please see her education page for information on GCSE, A Level Art and photography 1:1 tutorial and UCAS application support.