LARGE SCALE OILS I painted this not long after my husband was killed by Gaddafi's warplane when it fired missiles at the civilian plane and blew it up over Tripoli 22 December, 1992. I hadn't realised I had painted myself in the combat colours of the military planes. This image was used for the cover of my second book 'Living Under Terror'. |
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WATERCOLOUR WASHES WITH PEN |
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THE DESERT
OIL EXPERIMENT WITH SALT AND SUGAR
MEXICO Felicity's work took her to Mexico City, where she taught secondary students and ran workshops for assessment.
There wasn't enough time to record the captivating sites that were on hand. The Mayan and Aztec temples and cultures all coloured her outlook and desire to record as much of the architecture,( much of it buried and hidden in the jungles) as weekends and holidays would allow on her teaching schedule.
While at university Felicity devised a unique style in firstly laying her page with watercolour washes and then drawing in the images in gel pens
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Wild colours, especially the orange family explode onto Felicity's canvases.
They add a vitality which sinks you into the painting and the whirlwind which is her life. Her architectural studies, especially of the ruins of Libya and recently Mexico's Mayan and Aztec temples transport you in time and her random choice of colour emerges you into a foreign world, once passed and forgotten. Hints of the details are recorded so that these paintings can be later finished in the studio. They can take several hours each. |
