Mary Fedden was born in Bristol in 1915. She wanted to be a painter even as a child. Leaving Badminton School at sixteen, Fedden studied at the Slade School of Art in London from 1932 to 1936 under Vladimir Polunin, who had worked with the Ballets Russes.
Mary Fedden painted sets for professional performances at Sadlers Wells, but decided against stage design as a career. Returning to Bristol, she taught art and made a living by painting portraits. During the war Mary Fedden served in the Land Army and the Woman's Voluntary Service, and on settling in London she worked as a stage painter for the Arts Theatre in Great Newport Street and produced propaganda murals.
In 1946 Mary Fedden resumed easel painting. She held her first art exhibition at the Mansard Gallery in 1947, showing a number of still life and flower paintings. She was subsequently commissioned to paint covers for Woman magazine. In 1949 she moved to Durham Wharf, a complex of art studios on the Thames at Chiswick. In 1951 she married the British artist Julian Trevelyan, whom she had met before the war.
Since 1946 Mary Fedden has painted prolifically and has had regular exhibitions at the Redfern Gallery, the New Grafton Gallery and many other galleries throughout Britain. She painted murals for the Television pavilion at the 1951 Festival of Britain. From the late 1950s she taught painting at the Royal College of Art. In 1992 she was elected to the Royal Academy and she has been a member of the Royal West of England Academy at Bristol since the mid-1930s, serving as its President from 1984 to 1988.
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Limited Edition Prints: Mary Fedden at Red Rag Gallery
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