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In 1993, the Phoenix Gallery, Lavenham, curated an exhibition entitled "Spencer Pryse: Three Generations of Artists", featuring Emma Cameron's work alongside that of her mother, Tessa Spencer Pryse R.B.A., and grandfather, Gerald Spencer Pryse (1882-1956).
Tessa Spencer Pryse grew up in Wales in large draughty mansions surrounded by her father's work and the family Van Dycks. At the age of ten she was sent to France and spent the following six years in Switzerland. This without doubt nurtured a feeling for rich colour and dramatic landscape evident in her paintings. Her father insisted she should have a career in the diplomatic service, but she rebelled against his advice and went to evening classes at the Byam Shaw School. Encouraged by the painters Bernard Dunstan and Peter Greenham, she attended the school full-time after her father's death. After her marriage to the Scottish painter Ewan Cameron, she lived on the Black Isle off the north-east coast of Scotland, where she still has a studio and returns regularly to paint, as well as spending much time painting in the south of France. In 1982 she moved to Colchester where she studied printmaking under Richard Bawden. She was invited by the Keeper of The Royal Academy of Art to be a guest student at the Royal Academy Schools in 1983, and in 1984 won the Oppenheim Award to pursue printmaking. Tessa has exhibited extensively and has had several one-woman shows.
She was selected and sponsored by Arthur Anderson for an exhibition in
London in 1991, and is a member of the Royal Society of British Artists. Bernard Cheese R.E.
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