Tessa Spencer Pryse

Tessa Spencer Pryse is a British Impressionist artist based in Wivenhoe, Essex.

The daughter of Gerald Spencer Pryse, a noted Welsh lithographer, Spencer Pryse had an unusual childhood, attending schools in France, rural Wales and Switzerland. She gained a scholarship to Byam Shaw Art School aged 17, where she met her future husband and father of her two children. Based for a time in Scotland, she moved to Wivenhoe in 1991. The artist's work is notable for its use of light and landscapes. She has commented: "light and delight; those two words with a common root are my inspiration. I paint what I see and search for what I feel to be the essence of a scene in landscape, figure or interior."