Born 1915.

Mary Fedden is one of Britain's best known and loved artists. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, as a scholar from 1932-1936. Between 1958 and 1964 she taught, as the first woman tutor, at the Royal College of Art.  She also taught  from 1965 to 1970 at the Yehudi Menhuin School.

She was  President of the Royal West of England Academy for several years and is a serving senior Royal Academician, elected in 1992.

Her paintings are of  still-lives, flowers and animals in a variety of media, including oils, watercolours, and collages. Her subjects are executed in a bold, expressive style with vivid and contrasting colours.
She is also a noted muralist, having been commissioned for the Festival of Britain in 1951, the P & O Liner Canberra in 1961, and Charing Cross Hospital with Julian Trevelyan  (her late husband) in 1980. 
Her work has been shown at most major galleries, including the Redfern (from 1953), Hamet Gallery, the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol, Heal's Mansard Gallery and the New Grafton Gallery and Beaux Art, London.
She is regarded as one Britain's most respected artists and her work is in nearly every important Modern British collection in the country. This includes the Tate Gallery, Contemporary Arts Society and HM The Queen's collection.

In 1997 she was awarded an OBE.