Fiona is a Artist, Painter & Fashion Illustrator, born in New Zealand and lives in Sydney, Australia. After her studies at New York’s prestigious Parsons School of Art were cut short due to family circumstances, Fiona moved back to Australia where she is currently based.
Fiona's background lies in Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Illustration and working as a Makeup Artist for Film & TV. Credits for her work as a Makeup Artist include - Matrix 2 & 3, Moulin Rouge, Mission Impossible. While working as a freelance Makeup Artist Fiona also worked as a freelance fashion Illustrator for several leading editorial magazines and corporate clients in Asia, Australia & NZ. The love of fashion and of people is reflected in Fiona’s style of paintings and her fashion illustrations.
Her Artwork & Illustrations are published & featured in the following books :
- “Big Book of Fashion Illustration” by Martin Dawber Published by Anova Books Company Ltd
- “Imagemakers Cutting Edge Fashion Illustration”
by Martin Dawber Published by Mitchell Beazley
- “Madonna In Art”
compiled by Mem Mehmet Published by Chaucer Press London
Editorial magazines include -
Cleo
She
Elle
Cosmopolitan
Cleo
Dolly
Girlfriend
For Me
NW
Air NZ
Fiona's Inspiration for her Fashion Illustrations :
Fashion is a reflection of what is going on within contemporary culture, with music, rock’n’roll, film, technology, visual arts, architecture, photography, and street cultures all feeding off each other. Fashion is as definitive of a certain period in time and as important as art! Its a chameleon, fleeting, always changing and forever elusive. You enter into another realm, a realm of fantasy and theatre. Fashion gives youth a form of expression, the ability to rebel, to stand out in the crowd or be accepted into a selective group. I try to create strong, capable and extremely feminine woman. It all tells a story – the hair, the makeup, the clothes!
Inspiration for her paintings:
I love what makes people tick, behind a portrait there is always a story. Everyone has a story to tell...some more than others.
Fiona continues to work as an Artist and Fashion Illustrator and is currently working on a series of portrait paintings and illustrations for an exhibition in NY in 2010.
