テート・ギャラリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (テート・ギャラリーInstagram)「#GettoKnow Mary Fedden (1915–2012) and her soothing still lifes... 🖌️🖌️🖌️ Mary Fedden was born in Bristol and wanted to be a painter as a child. She studied at the Slade School of Art in London from 1932 to 1936 under the theatre designer Vladimir Polunin and she went on to paint sets for professional performances at Sadlers Wells. Returning to Bristol, she taught art and made a living by painting portraits. During World War II she served in the Land Army and the Woman's Voluntary Service, and on settling in London she worked as a stage painter and produced propaganda murals. In 1944 she was called up, and sent abroad as a driver for the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI). In 1946 the artist resumed painting and held her first exhibition, aged 31, showing a number of still life and flower paintings. In 1951 she married the artist Julian Trevelyan, whom she had met before the war. From the late 1950s she taught painting at the Royal College of Art, where she taught painting to David Hockney and Patrick Caulfield. She was inspired by Hockney’s creative attitude on her own work, saying that through him she experienced ‘something to do with the excitement of painting, I think; he was very deeply thrilled with painting.' Though she was commissioned throughout her life to paint people, landscapes and flowers for hospitals, festivals and schools, Fedden continually returned to still lifes, describing them as her 'one real love.' 💕 🍇 Mauve Still Life 1968 🍏 Ginger Beer Bottle, 1972 🦋 Pot of Shells 1971 🎨 The Etching Table 1971 🐚 Shells and Pebbles 1971 🌱 Figs 1972 🥑 Red Still Life 1967 🏵️ Etching Table 1972」1月15日 3時50分