Latest News
how it started
Meet Tessa
Tessa de Guytenaer is a visual artist whose work is deeply rooted in a lifetime of making. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK) in 2007 with a degree in Textile Design, she spent over 15 years working across the fashion world — from collaborative design projects to running her own textile print studio. Through those years she cultivated an intuitive mastery of color, texture, and composition, always guided by a curiosity about how material and emotion intertwine.
Her work explores the subtleties of mood, memory, and presence. It is guided by a sense of openness, where brushstrokes and layers form a language of sensation rather than narrative. The result is a body of work that resonates as much with quiet introspection as with bold looking — art that invites you in, then leaves space for your own imagination.
From Designer to artist
The Shift
Over time, a powerful creative shift emerged: a call to make work beyond fabric, to create pieces that live on the wall and invite sustained feeling rather than explanation. Tessa’s art translates sensations that words can barely touch — intuitive moments, lived experience, inner landscapes — into visual form. Her practice thrives in the space between abstraction and emotion, where each piece becomes a place to experience feeling without needing to define it.
a creative life
Today Tessa's main focus is her autonomous art and custom made pieces. With her design studio Saltbox, she still works with a small selection of lifestyle brands to help bring their print stories to life.
Tessa creates from a light studio space near the beach in Scheveningen, the Netherlands.