By
Fiona Craig
Piece description from the artist
The Palm Collection is a handmade painting of various types of Palm trees from around the world growing in a tropical botanical garden.
The lush green foliage of the diverse types of Palms exhibit a varied textured appearance. The diagonal leaves of the short trees convey a dramatic sense of vitality that contrasts with the more relaxed drooping leaves of the stately, elegant tall Palms. The 3-D appearance is created by layering the brighter, sharper trees in the foreground and painting the forms of those in the background in a softer, lighter, bluer, flatter manner.
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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