Mary Fedden works
Location: B Floor, QMC
Yellow Flowers in a Grey Vase (1980), White Flowers in a Green Vase (1979)
Mary Fedden was born in Bristol and wanted to be a painter even as a child. she studied at the Slade School of Art in London from 1932 to 1936 under the theatre designer Vladimir Polunin, who had worked with the Ballets Russes. She painted sets for professional performances at Sadlers Wells, but decided against stage design as a career. She held her first exhibition at the Mansard Gallery in Heal's Department Store in 1947, showing a number of still life and flower paintings.
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.