Fiona Frank, Artist: Notes -

Fiona gained a BA Hons Fine Art in 1984 at Lancashire College of Art before moving to Bristol where she lived, painted, and taught art until 2007, when she relocated to Wales. Her art is inspired by Nature, her greatest teacher. She is an innate colourist, and has a drawing habit & loves to paint 'en plein air' to truly sense the animation & ambience of her chosen location.

Now happily settled in the Wye Valley, she is surrounded by an ever-changing canvas of beautiful woodlands, river & gorge scenes, which have brought her artistic composition into the magical realm of music. The sounds of birds & water are never far away.

On the Gallery page you will find a number of oil paintings created in the peaceful ambience of the bluebell woods in Springtime.

Fiona feels immensely privileged to be part of this everchanging landscape, where she has spent many an hour capturing precious moments in time beneath the tall trees & in the heart of the woodlands - keeping them alive for you to see in the vivid canvasses you have before you. This can be challenging sometimes, especially if bombarded by hailstones, rain or gusts of wind, or even marauding dogs!

She writes:

"Nature has always been my teacher and guide and our move to Tintern has fulfilled my spiritual needs for peace and closeness to the natural world."

In April & May, I celebrate the rich tapestry of bluebells, lacy garlic, and celandines that carpet the spaces between the trees. The curving path draws one into the magical world of nature spirits and lets the imagination begin a journey underneath the wooden arches of branches amidst the fragrant flowers. As a contrast to the woodland paintings, Cornish seascapes give a very different sense of space with pounding waves in a turbulent sea & sense of wild openness & freedom.

Awards and exhibitions.

AWARDS:

1992 Talens Oil Award - Britain's Painters Exhibition, Westminster Gallery, London
1993 Tinted Bockingford Competition: Runner-up Prizewinner

COLLECTIONS:

The Wessex Collection, Marquess of Bath - Sir Charles Frank - Lucian Freud - Lydia Mordkovitch - Julian Richer
- and other private collections in the UK, Netherlands, Germany, Vietnam and Japan

MAJOR EXHIBITIONS:

1985 Open Exhibition of Contemporary British Watercolours Bankside Gallery, London
1985 Royal West of England Academy: Annual Exhibition
1991 Roy Miles Gallery, London: 'British Month'
1992 Portico Gallery, Manchester: 'A Celebration of Colour'
1992 The Alberti Gallery, Cork Street, London
1992 The Talens Oil Award 'Britain's Painters 1992' Westminster Galleries, London
1993 The Alberti Gallery at the Bath Contemporary Art Fair
1993 United Society of Artists, Westminster Gallery, London
1993 Tinted Bockingford Competition: Runner-up Prizewinner
1994 The Alberti Gallery: 'Summer Exhibition' Cork Street, London
1994 Roy Miles Gallery, London: 'A Return to Beauty' Exhibition
1994 Alberti Gallery at the 'Art Show' Alexandra Palace, London
1997 De Putron Art Consultancy, London
1997 Paul Hawkins Gallery, London
1998 Loggia Gallery, London
1998 British Lime Gallery, Laguna Beach, California
1999 Bank of America, Laguna Beach, California
1999 British Lime Gallery, Santa Ana, California
2003 'Summer Light' Solo Exhibition at the Schoolhouse Gallery, Morvah, Cornwall
2017 Brockweir Village Shop
2018 Bluebells exhibition (Chepstow art trail) (21/22 July 2018)

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE:

1997 Burton Agnes Hall, North Yorkshire
1999 Burton Agnes Hall, North Yorkshire

MEMBERSHIPS:

1990 Member of Bath Society of Artists
1998 Member of Free Painters and Sculptors F.P.S.

OTHER EXHIBITIONS:

1983 Harris Museum, Preston: 'Lancashire Exhibition'
1984 Festival Gallery, Bath: Avon Open Exhibition
1986 Royal West of England Academy: Annual Exhibition
1989 Bath Society of Artists: Annual Exhibition Victoria Art Gallery
1989 Rooksmoor Gallery, Bath: Summer Exhibition
1989 Guild Gallery, Bristol: Christmas Show
1990 Pelter Sands Gallery, Bristol
1990 Lodge Gallery, Bath: TWO PERSON SHOW
1990 Blenheim Gallery: Exhibition at the Tabernacle, Portobello, London
1990 17th Laing Art Exhibition, London
1990 'A Celebration of Colour & Line' Rocinantes, Bristol: TWO PERSON SHOW
1990 South West Open 1990, Plymouth
1990 Natural Health Clinic, Bristol: SOLO SHOW
1990 The Bristol Guild: SOLO SHOW
1990 Bath Society of Artists: Members Exhibition
1990 Bath Society of Artists Annual Exhibition Victoria Art Gallery
1990 Guild Gallery, Bristol: Christmas Show
1991 18th Laing Art Exhibition, Bristol
1991 Bath Society of Artists: Annual Exhibition Victoria Art Gallery
1991 Gumstool Gallery Exhibition, Tetbury
1991 Guild Gallery, Bristol: Christmas Show
1992 19th Laing Art Exhibition, Bristol
1992 'A Celebration of Colour' Hewlett & Packard, Bristol: TWO PERSON SHOW
1992 Bath Society of Artists: Annual Exhibition Victoria Art Gallery
1992 The Royal Bath & West of England Show
1992 South West Open, Plymouth & Truro
1992 Bath Society of Artists: Members Exhibition
1993 'A Celebration of Colour' The Guild Gallery, Bristol: TWO PERSON SHOW
1993 Rooksmoor Gallery, Bath
1993 Malvern Open Drawing Competition
1993 Bath Society of Artists: Annual Exhibition Victoria Art Gallery
1993 HTV: 'Colour Vision'
1994 'A Celebration of Colour in Nature' Praxis Gallery, Bristol: TWO PERSON SHOW
1994 'A Celebration of Colour in Nature' The Happening Gallery, Bristol: TWO PERSON SHOW
1994 Bath Fringe Art Fair: Green Park Station
1994 Royal Bath & West of England Show
1994 Bath Society of Artists 89th Exhibition: Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
1995 Parkview Paintings, Bristol
1995 Bath Society of Artists: Victoria Gallery, Bath
1996 Crypt Gallery, St Georges Brandon Hill, Bristol: TWO PERSON SHOW
1996 Bath Society of Artists: Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
1997 Bath Society of Artists: Hotbath Gallery, Bath
1997 Loggia Gallery, London
1998 Crypt Gallery, St Georges Brandon Hill, Bristol: TWO PERSON SHOW
1998 Bath Society of Artists: Victoria Gallery, Bath
1999 Guild Gallery, Bristol
1999 Loggia Gallery, London
1999 Hotbath Gallery, Bath
2001 Guild Gallery, Bristol
2001 Bath Society of Artists: Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
2001 Bath Society of Artists: Hotbath Gallery, Bath
2002 Bath Society of Artists: Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
2002 Bath Society of Artists: Hotbath Gallery, Bath
2008 Create Centre, Bristol
2015/6 Chepstow Museum: From Turner to Romantics follow on show
2017 Chepstow Museum

ONE PERSON SHOWS

August 2003 'Summer Light' Solo Exhibition at the Schoolhouse Gallery, Morvah, Cornwall
2017 Brockweir Village Shop
2018 Bluebells exhibition (Chepstow art trail) (21/22 July 2018)

The exhibition at Brockweir, 2017.