About
Felicity Mara was born in London and grew up there and in New York and New England. She did her Foundation and Fine Art degree at Camberwell School of Art and began exhibiting in the mid-1980s.
She lives and works in Cornwall, and in 2012 was awarded a tenancy at Porthmeor Studios, St Ives.
“My paintings are not literal depictions of the things around me, but I work with all these things in a sense – the landscape outside my window, the space inside my studio, the changing angles of sunlight and sounds that float up from the beach. As far as possible I am trying to find a visual equivalent for the experience of being here.”
Galleries
Solo exhibitions
2019 Transatlantic, Porthmeor Studios, St Ives
2015 Light on the Wall, Penwith Gallery, St Ives
2014 A Year at Porthmeor, Belgrave St Ives, 6–20 September (pictured above)
2009 The Eye Made Quiet: Poetic Landscapes, Belgrave St Ives
2008 Chalk Hill Contemporary Art, Guildford
2004 Rainyday Gallery, Penzance
2003 Rainyday Gallery, Penzance
1985 New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
Selected mixed exhibitions
2022 ARC Padstow, invited artists; Falmouth Art Gallery, Imagine Falmouth; Belgrave St Ives, Camberwell Teachers & Students
2021 Exhibition No.5, Morgans, Falmouth. 2014 Falmouth Art Gallery, Porthmeor Past and Present; Penwith Gallery, spring exhibition; Belgrave St Ives, summer exhibition
2013 Belgrave St Ives, summer and winter exhibitions; Porthmeor Studios new artists’ show
2012 Art in Cornwall: 60 Miles of Paintings, Gallery Latitude 50
2011 Littoral, Chalk Hill Contemporary Art, Guildford
2010 Art from Cornwall, Gavagan Art, Settle
2008 Peninsula, Edgar Modern, Bath; Penwith Society of Arts, St Ives
2007 Toronto International Art Fair, Canada; Little Picture Show I, Rainyday Gallery, Penzance; Penwith Society of Arts, St Ives; Art Ireland, Dublin; A Postcard from St Ives, Belgrave St Ives
2006 Summer Show, Belgrave St Ives
2005 Christmas Exhibition, Belgrave St Ives; Penwith Society of Arts, St Ives; Porthmeor, Belgrave Gallery, St Ives
2004 A View of St Ives IV, Belgrave St Ives
2003 Penwith Society of Arts, St Ives
2002 Belgrave St Ives; Rainyday Gallery, Penzance; Penwith Society of Arts, St Ives
2001 The Music Show, Bruton Gallery, Leeds; Penwith Society of Arts, St Ives
2000 Penwith Society of Arts, St Ives
1999 Penwith Society of Arts, St Ives
1992 South West Open, Brewhouse Arts Centre, Taunton
1989 New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
1988 New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
1987 Royal Overseas League, London; New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
1986 New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
1984 South West Arts Open, Brewhouse Arts Centre, Taunton
1983 South West Arts Open, Brewhouse Arts Centre, Taunton