About The Artist

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

After graduating with a degree in English Literature from the University of York, a career and having a family it is only now 35 years on that Fiona is finally pursuing a long held dream of painting full time. She has always loved painting, starting with watercolour, then acrylic and now oils. She has been using oils to create her atmospheric landscapes since 2022 and originally studied the technicalities of oil painting at the art school of Royal College of Art lecturer and artist Martin Kinnear.

Fiona's 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. 

Fiona 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". 

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. Paintings can be purchased via the gallery.

Fiona explains "I begin each piece with a vision in mind, but allow the materials and my instincts to guide me as I work. I believe that the process of creating art should be just as fulfilling as the finished piece".

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.

Using her own photos and references which are usually a few simple tonal line sketches made on location, these are used back in the studio to paint a grisaille or simple colour under-painting in oil. Adding glazes and impasto later she  allows the painting to evolve with an agency of its own.

"For me my memories of place become symbolic of an internal emotional landscape inspired by the beauty and forces of nature". 

Artistic influences of the past and present are artists such as Constable, Turner, Peter Krøyer, Edward Seago, Edward Wesson, Fred Cuming, Kurt Jackson and Gareth Edwards. 

Fiona favours painting methods such as grisailles, glazing, scumbling and strong tonal contrasts.

Her subject matter is influenced by memories of East Anglian Fenland skies, seascapes and landscape.  She is also inspired by the landscapes of Northern Europe and anywhere cold, dark and moody with dramatic big skies!

She likes to say, "I am a Tonal Romanticist with a bit of Expressive Sublime thrown in!" There is a subterranean landscape of emotions inspired by the beauty and awe of nature especially atmospheric stormy skies. 

Fiona strives to create pieces that are both visually powerful and emotionally impactful.