Tesa grew up in San Francisco during the Beat era. Her home was full of art and artists. Life in the Locks household was ALL about Art. Early college days Tesa studied metal smithing and theatre arts. She left her beloved City, a young single mom with a new partner, and headed to the country to feel the change of the seasons, hear roosters crow in the morning and to give her daughter the experience of earth underneath her bare feet. They landed in Sonoma. Through the 70’s and 80’s she was a masseuse, a professional birth attendant, a hypnotherapist, and finally, for the last many years, a Clinical Psychologist. When she retired from private practice in 2020 Tesa returned to the visual arts. Art became the avenue to experience and express the loss of a deeply meaningful life’s work. The joy of painting has been a rejuvenating force. Collage found its way onto the canvas, into her abstract paintings and even her portraits. Tesa has been creating new work this year and is looking forward to sharing it.