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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. Name in front. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Mary Fedden (1915-2012) is a popular artists. The focus one of Britain’s most of this acclaimed book newly available in paperback in celebration of her life’s achievement is the artist’s creative process in various different media-oil gouache pencil and collage. While Fedden is often considered almost exclusively a still-life painter still life was far frons being her only preoccupation as this book shows. Fantasy and imagination also played a strong part as is particularly evident in her small gouaches. A quietly surreal enigmatic streak runs through much of her work Fedden’s collages are a witty and affectionate homage to the work of her hussand Julian Trevelyan. They lived worked and travelled together from 1949 to 1988. The book re-emphasises her debt to him but also her independence even during their carly life together when he stimulated her move into Modernism. Is an engaging text which draws on numerous conversations with the artist during her final years Christopher Andreae considers why Fedden has always had such a popular following. looks at the English quality of her work and talks about the commercialisation of her art and her attitudes to the art market. Fedden is shown to be an original serious and prolific artist a draftsman of unusual sensitivity and prowess and a colourist of power and subtlety. (MP)