Felicity Charlton

Felicity Ursula Hartland Charlton (1913 – 18 March 2009) was a British artist known for combining realism and fantasy elements in her paintings often of figures in gardens. Although born in Bristol, Charlton spent the majority of her life working in Wales.

Biography Felicity Ursula Hartland Charlton was born in 1913 in the Clifton area of Bristol and attended the West of England College of Art in that city. There she met her future husband, the artist Evan Charlton, who was teaching at the college. Charlton moved to Wales in 1938, and throughout World War II worked as an agricultural labourer there.

After the war, she resumed her artistic career and took part in a number of group shows. These included the 1949 Welsh Arts Council exhibition Twenty-Five Paintings by Contemporary Welsh Artists, the 1951 Festival Exhibition of Contemporary Welsh Painting and the National Library of Wales exhibition The Artist in Wales that toured during 1952. The New Hall Art Collection in Cambridge and the Contemporary Art Society for Wales also hold examples.

Cardiff Metropolitan University awards an annual prize, the Evan and Felicity Charlton Travel Award, in memory of the couple.