Please join us on Thursday 20th November, 6 - 8pm, for an evening with renowned landscape painter, Tess Recordon

Fen Ditton Gallery are delighted to be exhibiting Tess Recordon’s work for the first time as part of our Autumn / Winter Exhibition 2025.

Working solely from memory, Tess uses the exploration of recollection as an integral part of her working process. The landscapes she paints are re-imagined to best embody the feeling and essence of the places she has walking through and visited.

Tess Recordon is a well-known painter, living in Cambridge, who trained at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology and at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. It could be said that she [too] has ‘the wild eye’. Although a great traveller and lover of nature, her landscapes rarely focus on the particulars of a recognisable place; instead, they draw the viewer in gradually, by weaving together rich colours, or through her playful use of marks and build-up of textures. Aware of the Northern European romantic landscape tradition, she sometimes lets in an element of spookiness or fantasy. Static facts and spatial fixtures are often avoided, so as to leave the viewer’s imagination free to roam.
Written by Professor Frances Spalding for the Cycles of Influence: Art Shaping Art exhibition at Clare Hall, Cambridge, 2023

You are invited to come and meet Tess over a glass of wine and hear about the landscapes that inspire her as well as the artists whose techniques strongly resonate and influence her work.

Thursday 20th November, 6 - 8pm
This is a free event
Booking recommended by contacting info@fendittongallery.com