Felicity Keefe
The Winter Lake
Oil on Canvas
80cm x 70cm
 
Felicity Keefe is a contemporary landscape painter known for her exploration of the natural world's shifting atmospheres and their reflection of inner landscapes. Her work has been exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, recognized for its intensity and beauty. Rooted in the British landscape, she captures the changing seasons and weaves together traditional landscape, literature, and personal mythology. Water is a recurring element in her paintings, symbolizing healing, purification, wisdom, and transformation, reflecting life's underlying essence.
 
THE FERTILE VOID
 
There is a precision and clarity to winter, a shedding of everything that is no longer needed, a sacred release, a deep seasonal sigh. Life sinks below the ground and the frost starts to slowly creep above it. Within this turning of the year we head towards a season of magical stillness, a fertile void, a soft resonant space from which we can dream ourselves into being. 
 
The work in this set of paintings aims to capture the feel, tone and colours of those deeply magical days, as we head into November, step into the liminal and watch the veil between worlds become increasingly thin. 
 
The focus is on connectivity between the water and the Land, the above and the below, the inward and the outward. A series of re-imagined landscapes, rooted within the Celtic soil, held within the elements, spread out below a stretch of silver skies…
 
Felicity Keefe - October 2025