Tessa Bennion is an academic painter working in oil, charcoal, and graphite. Trained at the Barcelona Academy of Art, she draws on the rigorous traditions that shaped masters like Velázquez, Picasso, and Goya while following her own path of expression. Whether painting portraits, still lifes, or plein air studies, she approaches each work with discipline, reverence, and a desire to honor the great tradition of art.

For Tessa, painting from life is both a practice and a calling—capturing the fleeting and the timeless with equal devotion. When not at the easel, she can be found in the mountains of Alaska or in her home town of Anchorage performing jazz/funk fusion with her band, The Work Shoes. This site is her living catalog: a record of finished works, processes, and the drawings that hold them together.