Leya Tess

Leya Tess is an interdisciplinary artist who swims out between the islands of Art/Science and East/West. She uses mark making and intervention to highlight imagined ecological structures. Her hyphenated (Hong Kong Chinese-Swedish-British) experience has been shaped by the wind and water of the North Eastern Pacific West Coast. She has a BFA in Visual Art from the University of Victoria and an incomplete BSC in Biological Sciences from Thompson Rivers University. She lives on an island in the Salish Sea and enjoys long walks on the beach with her tripod husky, Sunny.