Leya Tess is an interdisciplinary artist, sea kayak expedition leader and ecological educator.

She often swims out between the islands of Art/Science and East/West to create drawings and illustrations that bring attention to the nuances and cycles of the living breathing natural world.

 

Her hyphenated (Hong Kong Chinese-Swedish-British) experience

has been shaped by the wind and water of the North Eastern Pacific West Coast. 

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She has a BFA in Visual Art from the University of Victoria and

an incomplete BSC in Biological Sciences from Thompson Rivers University.

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She lives on an island in the Salish Sea.

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Select performances:
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• The Moon in Moonrise Rock Opera (Woodstove Festival, Cumberland 2024)

• Millennial Molly (West Coast League of Lady Wrestlers @ Edelweiss Hall, Victoria)

• Quagga Mussels (LOLW Island Rumble @ Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto)

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