Making, Learning, Contemporary Art, Painting Fiona Wilson Making, Learning, Contemporary Art, Painting Fiona Wilson

Clothed figure in oils

Sneaky little early morning escape to Insight School of Art for a fast-paced workshop with Estelle Lovatt and fabulous model Lena.

Just what the doctor ordered and lovely to be working in oils again. 👌

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Painting / Process

Another new painting on extra fine linen, in oil paint and pastels. Inspired by a drawing from life and on show at Trace exhibition from 10 March.

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Trace / Exhibition with Fiona Wilson & Jean-Luc Almond

Super excited to be showing with Jean-Luc Almond in a couple of weeks. TRACE is an exhibition of paintings and drawings from 10-21 March at The Basement at Bunyan exhibition space, Mill Street, Bedford.

Super excited to be showing with Jean-Luc Almond in a couple of weeks. TRACE is an exhibition of paintings and drawings from 10-21 March at The Basement at Bunyan exhibition space, Mill Street, Bedford. This is our second exhibition together which embraces two different approaches to figurative art but with similar underlying themes. Through my bold use of mixed media and Jean-Luc’s impasto techniques with oil, our work is united by our fascination with materials and how through layering it creates traces of history and process within their art which celebrate the unique characteristics of the mediums.

The exhibition runs 10-21 March 2020. PV / Tuesday 10 March 6.30-8.30pm.

All welcome, please do join us. PV RSVP fiona@fromthebalcony.uk

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Obedience and Defiance / Paula Rego at MK Gallery

Dark, disturbing, yet beautiful. So glad to have made it to the Paula Rego show at MK Gallery on its closing day.

Dark, disturbing, yet beautiful. So glad to have made it to the Paula Rego show at MK Gallery on its closing day.

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Zen / Commission

Latest painting commission, an oils and charcoal, to celebrate someone special.

An absolute pleasure to work on, and now off to a happy collector :) 

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Nadine / Book Cover

Author John Steinberg commissioned us to create cover designs that hint at the narrative and key relationships in the book, yet with a sensitivity and fragility.

I love a Balcony project where we have the opportunity to start with the handmade and combine our art and design disciplines.

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Author John Steinberg commissioned us to create cover designs that hint at the narrative and key relationships in the book, yet with a sensitivity and fragility. Set in the glamorous world of musical theatre and dance of Broadway and the West End, Nadine is a poignant story of unrequited love, with a twist.

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NOHAT / Women Shall Inherit the World

Honoured to have work on show alongside 37 brilliant local and international fmale artists at NOHAT Woman Shall Inherit The Earth – Female visions of Apocalypse, Utopia & Dystopia exhibition at The Panacea Museum

Honoured to have work on show alongside 37 brilliant local and international female artists at NOHAT Woman Shall Inherit The Earth – Female visions of Apocalypse, Utopia & Dystopia exhibition at The Panacea Museum, Bedford from 12 July – 26 August 2018. 

Sleeper  Mixed media on wood, 2018  Winner of Best Colour Award, HSF Art Fair, Hampstead 2018

Sleeper
Mixed media on wood, 2018
Winner of Best Colour Award, HSF Art Fair, Hampstead 2018

These small scale paintings are inspired by a decommissioned railway carriage – its conversion from transport to home to workshop, its journey and its final resting place.

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