Tess Jaray obituary (opens in new tab)

Influential artist and teacher who explored architectural and pictorial space in her workIn 1960, on a travelling scholarship from the Slade School of Fine Art, Tess Jaray, who has died aged 88, made her first trip to Italy. At the Slade she had been taught by , then Britain’s foremost historian of early Renaissance art. She arrived in Florence with her head full of painting, of Giotto and Duccio and Cimabue.It was not these, though, who were to move the 22-year-old student most. “Nobody who ...