PRIVATE EVENTS
Tess hosts private workshops and event activations for brands and interior design groups, creating a painting concept tailored to your event. They are a wonderful way for guests and fellow creatives to engage with brands, and with one another.
Past events include decorating enamel lanterns for Longchamp, leading a candlestick painting workshop for House & Garden, and teaching guests how to paint a mural at the launch of Templeton Garden in London. Venues have included Thyme and Charleston Farmhouse, and in-store events for Anthropologie and Matilda Goad.
To enquire about a private event, please email press@tessnewall.com
TEMPLETON GARDEN
Guests celebrating the launch of Templeton Garden were invited to try their hand at painting a mural in the style of Tess's work for the hotel's bar. The tonal mural features softly layered silhouettes of leaves and branches, drawing inspiration from the hotel gardens. The mural creates the feeling of being underneath a canopy, implying the gentle movement of sunlight through leaves. With guests moving fluidly around the hotel, the demonstration and activation was ongoing, bringing to life the storytelling of the hotel and engaging guests in its narrative. The completed panel now hangs in a master suite. View Mural Project
The Linnean Society
Tess hosted a botanical drawing workshop for guests of The Linnean Society, London’s historic botanical association. Working from live plant specimens and original specimens from Carl Linnaeus’ 18th century collection, Tess guided guests in the art, drawing onto stained parchment paper. The event included an an introduction from The Linnean Society’s collection team, celebrating the links between science, art and education.
Longchamp
Guests of the brand were hosted for a creative retreat at The Gallivant in Rye. Over the weekend, guests enjoyed beach walks, sea swims, poetry recitals and a painting workshop with Tess, decorating enamel camping lanterns in the Summer House. Guests were given sketches to plan their design on, and were then guided in painting their keepsake lantern to take home with them.
Anthropologie
Guests of the brand joined Tess at their flagship Regent Street store to celebrate the launch of their Seen Worn Kept sustainable denim collection. Inspired by Tess's collection of botanical paintings, she guided the group in handpainting motifs onto their own pairs of jeans to give them new life and create something beautifully unique.
Matilda Goad
To celebrate the launch of our collaboration, Tess handpainted MG&Co's Cloth Scallop Lampshades over two days instore in The Tay Building in Kensal Rise, giving customers the opportunity to watch the process and take home their lampshades with them. The delicate motifs included clovers, cherries, stars and meadow flowers.
House & Garden
Members of The Calico Club visited Tess and Alfred's studios for a behind-the-scenes tour of their creative process. Guests were given lunch in Tess and Alfred's garden at the foothill of the South Downs, followed by a painting workshop in the garden. Tess guided guests in decorating Bobbin Candlesticks made by Alfred, to take home with them.
Charleston Farmhouse
Interior designers gathered at Charleston Farmhouse, the East Sussex home of the Bloomsbury Group (and a stone's throw from Tess's own studio) for a day of inspiration. The day began with a tour of the house and garden, looking at Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell's decorative interiors, before a lampshade painting workshop with Tess in the Ox Barn. Each designer went home with a unique artwork inspired by Charleston.
Kin House
Design enthusiasts gathered at the private-hire Kin House in the Wiltshire countryside for the first Kin Creates workshop, an intimate lampshade painting workshop hosted by Tess. Tess guided the group in designing and painting their own lampshades, in the inspiring setting of the Barlow & Barlow designed property. Guests were encouraged to bring along fabric swatches from their room scheme to ensure that their lampshade would sit well within their interiors project.
