Mary Fedden

One of the best known and most sought after of living British painters. Her work has an easily recognizable personal style and returns again and again to the same everyday objects that lie around her studio – jugs, shells, fruit, frequently in front of a landscape seen though a window and often including a cat, and always in the most brilliant yet subtle colours. She has said of her work ‘I don’t necessarily paint things as they are I paint them as they ought to be.’

Mary studied at the Slade, winning a scholarship, and taught painting at the Royal College of Art between 1965-1970 when her pupils included Hockney, Caulfield and Kitaj. Her work was first exhibited in 1953 and is in a huge number of public and private collections including the Tate Gallery and HM the Queen.