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Emerging
Painting
Felicity MARTENS
Exhibition
Thalassic Pietà is a deeply personal and poetic meditation on the sea - its grace, its wounds, and our place within its vast memory. Emerging from a place of both reverence and sorrow, the works reflect a longing to connect with what is ancient, vulnerable, and enduring. This mixed-genre exhibition moves fluidly between magical realism, impressionism, and abstraction—each visual language chosen instinctively to serve the emotional truth of the image. The paintings trace an arc from ecological loss toward a quiet, tender hope, shaped by a profound love for the natural world and a grief for what has been taken from it. Created in moments of stillness and early morning light, each piece is a quiet offering—an attempt to listen more closely, to feel more deeply, and to see what still speaks beneath the surface.