Absolutely Brilliant Flower Paintings by Fiona Craig

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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.”