Birches in first snow 4

Birches in First Snow, 4

Piece description from the artist

Watercolour and soft pastel on wood panel, requires framing under glass. This artwork was inspired by a scene of late afternoon sunlight on autumn birch trees by a lake. A fresh, light snowfall — the first of the cold season — frosts the trees and ground. Sunlight illuminates the last of the foliage, causing an 'alchemy' that coverts it to copper, bronze and gold.

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About Fiona Craig

Chicago, IL

Fiona Craig is a fine artist and art teacher, painting flora, landscapes, still life and portraits. Her style is contemporary realism, in media oils, watercolours, acrylics, pastels, or mixed media. She enjoys travel and painting the natural environment.

Fiona has exhibited in galleries, taught art to adults and children, and worked by commission for several decades. Her artworks are in private and public collections worldwide.

Growing up in a mountainous region in Australia, Fiona was greatly influenced by the natural environment. She was encouraged to make art at home and was also sent to various arts and crafts workshops and classes, including music and dance. Her mother was a fiber artist who held art classes for children for almost two decades, and her father was an architect who took up ceramics as a hobby. Fiona often assisted her parents with the children's art groups at home. She carried the family artistic tradition and love of the natural environment into her art career.

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