Still-Life with Antique Head
Fedarbâs studies took her to the Slade School of Art in London before attending Westminster School of Art under the tuition of the artists Mark Gertler (1891-1939) and Bernard Meninsky (1891-1950). She later married the watercolourist and art teacher, Ernest Fedarb (b.1905). Daphne was most active as an artist during the period between the 1940s and 1960s. She was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists and the National Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers as well as a regularly exhibitor at the Royal Academy. Still Life with Antique Head bears strong surrealist qualities with its strange indoor/outdoor setting, the tilted, distorted perspective and ambiguous, worm-like branches with their peculiar heart-shaped leaves. There is a sense that the draperies, music score and plant life are becoming an ancient ruin.
