Felicity Keefe

“My paintings aim to capture the immense power and underlying permanence of the landscape around us. My spiritual connection to the land is hugely important to me, along side the urgent necessity to focus on preserving, evolving and interacting with our eco systems going forward. My work aims to present the environment as something of profound and powerful beauty, a living, breathing being in its own right.”

Felicity Keefe’s contemporary landscape paintings are inspired by her experience of the British landscape as it changes and reacts to seasons, weather and time. Her work is distinctive for its sense of atmosphere, often brooding, but also starkly beautiful. In Keefe’s art we see time working its magic in front of us. Nature is in constant transition, and this motion and fluidity is caught by Felicity through exquisite colours and striking tones.

“Out of random marks something recognisable emerges while something one thought to be recognisable recedes back into randomness… Keefe’s approach of working partly with intent and partly with unplanned freedom mirrors the landscape as she sees it. This is a landscape both structured and chaotic. It is the confrontation and meeting between these opposing states in nature and in her painting which produces dynamic energy and exciting friction.”
Taken from the foreword to Prima Materia by Vivienne Light.