About the artist

“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” 

Edward Hopper

Fiona would have loved to study Art at art school but a love of literature superseded the art and she graduated from the University of York with a degree in English Literature. Then a career and a family. Over thirty-five years later and she is finally pursuing her dream of being an Artist. She has been using oil since 2022 and studied oil painting at the art school of Martin Kinnear (Royal College of Art lecturer). 

Her paintings are inspired by travels, memories of place and the effects of light. Having grown up in the Fens of East Anglia she has been greatly influenced in her art practice by vast skylines, sunsets, seascapes and agricultural terrain. Other influences are the scenery of Scandinavia, Scotland and locations like the Shetlands, Iceland and Faroe Islands. There is a subterranean landscape of emotions inspired by the beauty and awe of nature especially atmospheric stormy skies. She likes to say, "I am a Tonal Romanticist with a bit of Expressive Sublime thrown in!"

She is primarily a ‘studio’ painter and takes her own photos to supplement on location tonal sketches. Back in the studio these aide memoires  are often used as the basis of a grisaille or underpainting. Once this is dry then there is a process of glazing and layering of paint and final touches of impasto. Often there are 10+ paintings on the go in various stages of finish.

In 2025 Fiona's painting called ‘Earth’s Shore’ was a Finalist at the Broadway Arts Festival Exhibition. In 2024 her painting ‘Blakeney’ was Highly Commended in the Finalists of the Exhibition. Broadway Contemporary Art gallery has hosted 2 very successful solo exhibitions for Fiona in 2024 and 2025 and her work has sold to collectors in UK, USA and Europe. Her work has also appeared in House & Garden magazine.

Fiona is represented by Broadway Contemporary Art gallery in Broadway, Cotswolds UK.

She says, "I love the vastness of Fenland horizons and the coastal seascapes of the North Sea. I'm especially inspired by dramatic skies, light and landscape wherever they may be and interested in expressing the emotion, beauty and memory of place".