Felicity Mara

Felicity Mara is a London-born painter whose work has been exhibited widely since the mid-1980s. She studied Fine Art at Camberwell School of Art before relocating to Cornwall, where she works from her studio at Porthmeor Studios, St Ives. 

Her paintings emerge from a deep engagement with the landscape, light, and atmosphere of her surroundings — not as literal depictions, but as visual responses to the sensations and rhythms of the natural world. Her work carries an abstract, lyrical quality shaped by the ever-changing coastal environment.

Mara’s recent large-scale paintings are influenced by the shifting intensity of sea light, weather patterns and the distinctive character of her studio setting. Often described as visual poems, her canvases use mark-making as a form of notation, balancing movement and stillness, and holding a quiet tension between past and present

STUDIO: CORNWALL, UK