Fiona Wilson is a mixed media artist working from her Bedford studio.
Working directly from life and using music to draw on memories, imagination and the sub-conscious, her approach is expressive and semi-abstract with a foundation in observational drawing. Her aim is to capture emotive energies and draw on her experience in visual communications to aid pictorial design and visual narrative. Figurative elements are developed or extracted from initial layers of abstracted marks and there’s a deliberate ambiguity to provoke the viewer to search deeper. What is obscured or absent is often as important as what is revealed.
“For me, what’s particularly interesting and satisfying about Fiona Wilson’s art lies at its semi-abstract core, which I’m naming ‘Figurative-Extraction’; it’s the non-representational, often forgotten, abstracted language of brilliant colour, tumbling line, rippling texture, gestural mark-making and dynamic shape referencing the real world, that Fiona Wilson successfully correlates to blossoming landscape or oxygen-rich human figure.
Blending reality towards expression, Wilson’s conceptual semi-figurative abstraction touches truths and ideas about time, space, feelings, thoughts and memory, within a strong invented pictorial design that’s theatrically complex in composition, I can only describe it as live performance on paper.
Her art has energy. Her art has a voice. I hear it.”
Fiona Wilson’s ‘Figurative-Extraction’ by Estelle Lovatt FRSA
Fiona has work in personal collections, undertakes commissions and illustrates for books and film.
She co-founded Balcony Art & Design Studio in 2017 and consults on visual communications and social media. Fiona also co-founded and leads Frescoes Art Club as Artist in Residence, and has recently launched Ampthill Art Club in collaboration with ceramicist Amanda Silk.
+44 (0) 7789 896077
fions@fionawilsonart.com
POP Studio 4
Market Hall
The Arcade
Bedford
MK40 1NS
Exhibitions
That’s A Wrap / Frescoes Gallery, Bedford / 23 December 2022 - 12 March 2023
Anthems & Anthologies / Blue Glass, Bedford / 26 January - 30 March 2023
2022
Goddess / 3 St Peter’s, Bedford / 11 November - 23 December 2022
Abundance / The Arc, Bedford / 30 September - 15 October 2022
Bedford Girls School Alumnae & Student Exhibition / 30 June 2022
Indulgence / 3 St Peter’s, Bedford / 31 March - 17 April 2022
Womanhood / Frescoes Gallery, Bedford / 24 March - 30 April 2022
Inspire / Goldington Academy, Bedford / 10 March 2022
2021
Anthologies / Frescoes Gallery, Bedford / 09September - 31 January 2021
Eden (group show) / The Arc, Bedford / 06 September - 23 October 2021
The Time is Now / Blue Glass, Bedford / 10 June - 30 January 2021
Unlocked 21: / Frescoes Gallery, Bedford / 04 May - 30 July 2021
2020
‘Trace’ Exhibition with Jean-Luc Almond / The Basement @ Bunyan, The John Bunyan Museum, Bedford / 10 March - 21 March 2020
2019
‘Unboxed’ Solo Exhibition / The Basement @ Bunyan, The John Bunyan Museum, Bedford / 12 March - 23 March 2019
2018
Exhibition / Frescoes Gallery, Bedford / 02 September - 30 November 2018
NOHAT: Woman Shall Inherit The Earth / Panacea Museum, Bedford / 12 July - 26 August 2018
Hampstead Summer Festival Art Fair / Whitestone Pond, Hampstead / Winner of the Colour Prize
Hampstead School of Art End of Year Staff & Student Exhibition / HSoA Gallery, Hampstead, London
Hampstead School of Art Dr Eithne Healy Student Show / HSoA Gallery, London
DoWrk Gallery / Luton, Bedfordshire
2017
Hampstead School of Art Dr Eithne Healy Student Show / HSoA Gallery, London
Hampstead Artists Council (HAC) Exhibiting Membership Exhibition / Renzo Piano Buidling, Central St Giles, London
ANB Group Exhibition / Bromham Mill Gallery, Bedfordshire
2016
Hampstead Artists Council (HAC) Exhibiting Membership Exhibition / HSoA Gallery, Hampstead, London
Existence / Joint Exhibition with Sculptor Jim Francis / Frescoes Gallery, Bedford
ANB Group Exhibition / Bromham Mill Gallery, Bedfordshire
Hampstead School of Art Student & Staff Show / HSoA Gallery, London
'Drawn Together' / Group Exhibition / Frescoes Gallery, Bedford
Alan Gouk Inspires Exhibition / HSoA Gallery, Hampstead School of Art Student Exhibition / Hampstead, London
2015
ANB Christmas Exhibition / Bedfordshire
Solo Exhibition / Pensieri, Bedford
ANB Group Exhibition / Bromham Mill Gallery, Bedfordshire
ANB Art Trail / Brownes, Bedford
ANB Summer Exhibition / Bromham Mill Gallery, Bedfordshire
Heath Street Open Air Fine Art Market / Hampstead, London
Kaleidoscope / Joint Exhibition with Jean-Luc Almond / Art Centre & Gallery, Bedford
Joint Exhibition / Frescoes Gallery, Bedford.
ANB Group Exhibition / Bromham Mill Gallery, Bedfordshire
‘Blurred Lines’ Solo Show / Frescoes Gallery, Bedford.
‘Animals' Group Exhibition curated by Art Gallery Space / Pavilion at the Park, Bedford.
2014
‘BedPop’ Pop Up Gallery / Art Centre & Gallery, Bedford.
‘Animals 2014’ Exhibition / Light, Space & Time Online Gallery
Pop Up Gallery / Art Centre & Gallery, Bedford.