ARTIST Fi Marks

“Women have been and continue to be silenced, she gives them a voice!”

Fi Marks paint stories of women from history and literature.

Women have been and continue to be silenced, she gives them a voice! She not only researches these women, but the textiles of the time. These patterns surround the women, in their setting and clothes. Every detail is painted by hand and a wonder to behold.

Fi Marks left her job as a teacher in 2019 to start her business as a full time professional artist and sells her wonderful paintings all over the world.

She is based in Derbyshire U.K. and combines her passion of art with history and story telling. She has had solo and joint shows online and in person.

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Fi Marks dipinge storie di donne tratte dalla storia e dalla letteratura. Le donne sono state e continuano ad essere messe a tacere, lei dà loro voce! Non ricerca solo queste donne, ma anche i tessuti dell’epoca. Questi tessuti e i loro disegni, circondano le donne, nel loro ambiente e nei loro vestiti. Ogni dettaglio è dipinto a mano ed è una meraviglia da vedere.

Fi Marks ha lasciato il suo lavoro di insegnante nel 2019 per iniziare la sua attività come artista professionista a tempo pieno e vende i suoi meravigliosi dipinti in tutto il mondo.

Vive nel Derbyshire, nel Regno Unito, e combina la sua passione per l’arte con la storia e la narrazione. Ha tenuto mostre personali e collettive online e di persona.

Fi Marks participates to Port Art Women, with three works  of which we show both details and painting, entitled :

  1. The mirror crack’d from side to side “The curse has come upon me,” cried The Lady of Shalott’” 50cmx60cm
  2. ““Georgian Star”51x61cm
  3. “Mother Love – Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft” 51x75cm

1. “On either side the river lie Long fields of barley and of rye, That clothe the wold and meet the sky; And through the field the road runs by To many-towered Camelot.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

based on the iconic “The Lady of Shalott”
‘The mirror crack’d from side to side
“The curse has come upon me,” cried
The Lady of Shalott’
Acrylic paint and gel medium
50cm x 60cm
20” x 24”
The cursed Lady of Shalott must never look out on Camelot
When she does, the mirror breaks and her fate is sealed. So she floats towards Camelot on a boat bearing the name “The Lady of Shalott”.

2. Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) was the first woman to discover a comet, earn a wage from Science and receive the Royal Astronomical Society’s Gold Medal.

Yet she experienced such childhood cruelty, she called herself as Cinderella. She overcame abuse, neglect, and disfigurement to find her place among the stars at age 36.
“Georgian Star”
51cm x 61cm
20” x 24”
Acrylic paint and gel medium on box canvas

3. How much does an absent parent in childhood influence the abandoned son or daughter?

“Mother Love – Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft”
This painting captures the power of their relationship despite this tragedy, as Mary Shelley would have only known her mother through her legacy of writing as well as through her father also a radical writer of the eighteenth century.
Mother love is all powerful be it shared or withdrawn.
Our experience of our relationship with our mother whatever that entails, makes us who we are today.
So often we crave mother love when it has disappeared out of our lives. It is that craving that is shown in this piece of art.
“Mother Love – Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft”
51cm x 75cm
20” x 30”
Acrylic Paint and gel medium on box canvas
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