Artist Profile
Tessa Cobb
Tessa Cobb is a children’s author, illustrator and all round happy person. She makes picture books about choosing happiness, and just completed her MA in Children’s Book Illustration at The Cambridge School of Art.
Tessa works with monoprint and mixed media to create joyful illustrations that focus on colour and texture. She’s a very Happy Lady when she’s outside drawing from life and you’re likely to spot Tessa around Bath with her sketchbook as she falls in love with her home city more and more each day.
Outdoor activities and a love of the natural world feature strongly in Tessa’s work. Her book ‘Why I Swim’, an ode to wild swimming, was selected for the DPictus Picturebook Showcase 2024. The title was exhibited at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair alongside innovative picture book illustrators from around the world.
Tessa’s stargazing book, Queen Of The Stars, was chosen for The Royal Commonwealth Society’s ‘Moongazers and Starfinders’ exhibition 2024 at 44AD. And her London Graduate Show at Candid Arts attracted representation from Jessica Hare at The Agency.
Tessa also teaches publishing part time at Bath Spa University. She delivers lectures on other creative university courses, and is a mentor at the EMERGE creative graduate studio on Sion Hill.
Medium: Drawing, Mixed media, Painting, Collage, Print Making
Medium: Drawing, Mixed media, Painting, Collage, Print Making
Profile
Tessa Cobb is a children’s author, illustrator and all round happy person. She makes picture books about choosing happiness, and just completed her MA in Children’s Book Illustration at The Cambridge School of Art.
Tessa works with monoprint and mixed media to create joyful illustrations that focus on colour and texture. She’s a very Happy Lady when she’s outside drawing from life and you’re likely to spot Tessa around Bath with her sketchbook as she falls in love with her home city more and more each day.
Outdoor activities and a love of the natural world feature strongly in Tessa’s work. Her book ‘Why I Swim’, an ode to wild swimming, was selected for the DPictus Picturebook Showcase 2024. The title was exhibited at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair alongside innovative picture book illustrators from around the world.
Tessa’s stargazing book, Queen Of The Stars, was chosen for The Royal Commonwealth Society’s ‘Moongazers and Starfinders’ exhibition 2024 at 44AD. And her London Graduate Show at Candid Arts attracted representation from Jessica Hare at The Agency.
Tessa also teaches publishing part time at Bath Spa University. She delivers lectures on other creative university courses, and is a mentor at the EMERGE creative graduate studio on Sion Hill.
