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Mary Fedden, 1968

Mary Fedden was a British painter, born in Bristol in 1915 and trained at London’s Slade School of Fine Art. She had wanted to be an artist since childhood and returned seriously to painting after serving during the Second World War. Fedden became best known for vivid, deceptively simple still lifes influenced by Matisse and Braque. She painted flowers, fruit, jugs, birds, cats and other familiar objects, often arranging them against distant landscapes. Her warm colors and slightly dreamlike compositions transformed ordinary domestic things into something playful and mysterious.

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