Fiona Craig is a professional artist who was born in Sydney,
Australia. She likes to paint the natural environment that surrounded her,
developed into exploring more individual and innovative ways of depicting the
much-painted brilliant Australian landscape and its flora.
Fiona Craig is trained both in various academic disciplines
and self taught. Amongst other excellent and talented teachers, she benefited
from print-making with Michael Kempson and studying drawing with Jocelyn
Maughan.
Fiona Craig says that “I often depict flora that have
cultural and historical allusions, such as the iconic New South Wales state
emblem, the waratah. A couple of my favorites are flowers that even caused
'maladies' when they first appeared on the European scene (i.e. 'Tulipomania'
and 'Orchid Fever'), the tulip and the orchid. Factors that also inform my
choice of subject matter include shape, color and a sense of mood. Rendering
large paintings with dramatic composition, tone, colour, and brushstroke, my
intention is not only to draw attention to the beauty of the subject, but also
to preserve the ephemeral in an almost monumental scale that imbues it with a
timeless quality.”