About Fiona
Renowned for her large and statuesque lily paintings, Fiona has recently become inspired by the landscape around her home – the changing colours of the seasons, the light, the shapes in the landscape.
Of her more abstract landscapes she says of them “I start a painting with perhaps only two colours in mind, but colours which I have seen in the landscape - areas of colour build up and lines of direction start appearing and the painting starts a journey."
Within Fiona there is a passion and understanding of colour and its profound ability to convey and provoke feelings. As time progresses her desire has become less about representing exactly what she sees but more a soulful response to how she sees the landscape and what she sees within it and with that a desire to develop a dynamic composition of colour and line. Of her less representational landscape paintings Fiona hopes they will allow the viewer a space for their own feelings and imaginations.
Born in 1966 in Scotland, Fiona grew up on a farm and was educated in Scotland. During the eighties and nineties she worked and lived in and around London, returning to live in Scotland in 2000. Fiona is married and lives on a small farm up a hill in rural Perthshire where she works from her studio. When she is not painting she is looking after her flock of Lleyn sheep, her black rock hens and her guinea fowl.
Fine Art Education
- Byam Shaw School of Art, London
- Leith School of Art, Edinburgh
Awards
Eliza Clifford Award, 2001