About Felicity

Felicity Marshall is an Australian painter and author/illustrator of children’s books.

She grew up in the country outside Perth, Western Australia – the daughter of an Australian photojournalist father and an English mother from Yorkshire.

She was also educated in Yorkshire, UK and in Boston, USA. She obtained an Honours Degree in Fine Art from Curtin University of Technology, majoring in painting. At the same time she studied photography, classical ballet, Martha Graham technique and performed in concerts and children’s pantomime.
After graduation, Felicity taught for one year in an art school and then moved to Melbourne where she worked in film production for 17 years, married, and had two children. In 1983 her house burned down in the Ash Wednesday bush fires in Victoria, destroying all her work, including 6 years of paintings ready for a major exhibition.

A few years later, Felicity started to write and illustrate children’s books, drawing on her experience in the film industry, in dance performance and her skills as a photographer and painter.
She has travelled and lived in USA, Canada, UK and Europe and has had several exhibitions of her work in Australia, UK and France. Her paintings are represented in private collections in Australia, UK, NZ, USA and France. She has worked as an art teacher and as a part time tutor mentor to photojournalism students, been an Artist in Residence and guest lecturer.

Felicity’s aunt, the late Winfred Bisset a concert pianist always told her ‘no matter what happens, I always have my music.’ Equally, Felicity believes her painting and her stories have always sustained her when life became difficult. In the words of her fellow artist and friend, the late Mireille Ipeau – ‘painting is oxygen’.

Felicity has lived over a 6-year period in the Loire Valley, France. She now lives and works in her studio in Anglesea on the Victorian surf coast where she is also a beekeeper, gardener, and beachcomber.