MARY FEDDEN ARTWORK. JULIAN WITH CURLEW SANDPIPER. 2006

FOR SALE

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Size unframed: 8″ x 5.5″ / 20.5cm x 14cm

Medium: Gouache on handmade paper

Signed and dated: “Fedden ’06”

Framing: Silver gilt stepped frame with cream double mount. Glazed

Provenance: Private collection UK

MARY FEDDEN ARTWORK FOR SALE. JULIAN WITH CURLEW SANDPIPER. FOR SALE

Julian with curlew sandpiper is a combination of Mary Fedden’s very favourite subjects: birds and her much-loved husband, Julian Trevelyan. Birds is a common theme in Mary’s paintings. They feature over and again, whether incidental or as the main focal point of a work. Similarly, she painted Julian many times throughout there lives together and then continued to do so right up until her own death in 2012, well after Julian sadly passed away in 1988 (click here to see another of my collection featuring Julian Trevelyan).

MARY FEDDEN AND HER LOVE FOR PAINTING BIRDS

In 1999, Mary Fedden’s Birds is published, a little book showcasing a wonderful collection of original watercolours inspired by one of her favourite subjects. In the foreword to the book, Mel Gooding, author and critic, writes “Mary Fedden’s birds are not the birds of the guide book and handbook, schematically delineated for use in the identification, or those of the great ornithological albums, such as those of Audubon, Gould or Thorburn, whose subjects are described with the definitive accuracy of scientist and the grace of the gifted enthusiast. They are the birds of her life, casually seen and enjoyed in gardens and parks, encountered with joy on a holiday walk by the sea, glimpsed from a window on the familiar river and its muddy banks, or found with unabashed pleasure in guidebooks or albums. They are, in the true sense of the word, appropriated: that is to say, taken out of nature and of art, and made her own.

“Their nests and eggs were never seen but in these paintings. Fedden’s birds are never symbolic, and only in the most general sense emblematic, as, inescapably, all birds are in our culture. They spring to a poetic life of their own in her paintings. I know of no one who knows and loves birds in nature, amongst the most dedicated of birdwatchers and the most assiduous of ornithologists, who does not love Fedden’s birds for their quickness and quiddity in her art.”

This lovely painting, Julian with curlew sandpiper, is painted in gouache on handmade paper. The sparkling seaside setting, together with the beautifully depicted curlew sandpiper combine to make it a great example of Mary Fedden’s bird paintings, with the added bonus of featuring Julian as well!

Julian with curlew sandpiper is a perfectly formed little painting and it is in excellent condition.

MARY FEDDEN ARTWORK FOR SALE. JULIAN WITH CURLEW SANDPIPER. Available for sale – please contact us for further details.

MARY FEDDEN. JULIAN WITH CURLEW SANDPIPER. 2006