Born in Asmara, Eritrea, and raised in Saudi Arabia, Tewelde's practice is shaped by movement across cultures, landscapes, and systems of belief. These experiences have fostered an enduring interest in belonging, ecology, cosmology, ritual, and the ways personal and collective histories are carried through the body. Her paintings emerge through an intuitive process of layering, erasure, and accumulation, allowing each work to evolve over time rather than towards a predetermined image. Colour, gesture, and material become a language through which uncertainty, presence, and transformation are experienced rather than explained.

Research is central to her practice. Grounded in anthropology, the social sciences, ecology, cosmology, and psychospiritual inquiry, Tewelde approaches abstraction as both a visual language and a way of knowing. Her work resists fixed interpretation, instead inviting sustained looking and open-ended encounters in which meaning unfolds through perception, reflection, and lived experience.

Alongside painting, Tewelde works with moving image, sound, and installation, creating immersive and multisensory environments that encourage active participation. Her experience as both an artist and educator informs a practice that values multiple ways of engaging with contemporary art.

Tewelde holds an MA in Fine Art and a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice from Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions including Geometry of Elsewhere at Gallery 1957, London (2026); the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Marrakech (2026); What the Mountain Has Seen at the Exhibition Research Lab, Liverpool John Moores University (2025); and Supernova and Artist of the Day at Flowers Gallery, London (2024). Her work has been featured in Whitehot Magazine, Glass Magazine, and Art Plugged, and is held in private collections in the United Kingdom, the United States, Europe, and Saudi Arabia.