Fiona Stanbury

Recently I won an award for Best artwork at the 11th Geoji International Art Festival at the Haegeumgang Theme Museum in South Korea. My painting reflected my love of nature and expressed my concern for the world's rainforests. It was called 'Tribute to Our Sacred Rainforests.'

My work often takes nature as a starting point. As a child I used to lie in fields and watch the sky float over me, and find worlds of meaning in the colours and shapes of the clouds. I explored the land in all seasons, and wanted to express this spirit. This relationship and connection with landscape followed me into adulthood, and my work always relates back to these experiences. I want to create a paint poem.

Currently I am working on a series of semi abstract paintings which sometimes refer to waterfalls and rivers to symbolise the passage of time. Other times, suggestions of places appear from marks of colour as I work. My interest in calligraphy, abstraction, colour and suggestions of figuration allow an exploration of landscape elements and abstract elements. At times figures emerge in the work.

When I was 12 I began to study Chinese watercolours, especially landscapes and animal paintings that had been rendered with simple, expressive brushstroke...

I studied first at Hastings College of FE (Foundation year) then Canterbury College of Art.

I consider that my main art education began when I lived in Cyprus, after art school, and worked full-time as an artist, supporting myself from my artwork and doing portraits.

Life itself has been my biggest education!

I have exhibited many times, in London, Cyprus, Greece, Belarus, Latvia, Malaysia, China, Paris, and all over Kent .

2025 The 11th Geoji International Art Festival at the Haegeumgang Theme Museum in South Korea (award for Best artwork).
2025 Dafen International Oil Painting Biennale, Dafen Museum, Shenzhen, China
The 20th Terrace Open, Patchworks.xyz, London 2024
2024 Fronteer gallery, Sheffield, 'Colour.'
2024 Tea and Friendship' Space in Hackney.
Linden Hall Studio gallery, Winter Group Show, 2023
The 3rd Dafen International Oil Painting Biennale, Red Cube Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, December 8th to January 7th 2023.
The 19th Asian Art Biennale, Shipakala Academy, Dhaka, December 8th to January 7th 2023.
Linden Hall Studio gallery, Winter Group Show, Deal, Kent. 2023.
The 4th Qingdao International Art Exhibition, 1902 Art Museum, Qingdao city, China.
2022 Turner Contemporary gallery, Margate, Kent, OPEN, 23rd October 2021 to Feb 2022.
2021 WINTER GROUP SHOW at Linden Hall Studio gallery,Deal, Kent.
Exhibited: UK, Cyprus, Greece, Latvia (Mark Rothko Centre), China, Malaysia, and Paris (Louvre).

NATIONAL ART MUSEUM OF CHINA, BEIJING:
6th/7th Beijing International Art Biennale, (September 2015/2017).

THE NEW MARK ROTHKO CENTRE, DAUGAVPILS, LATVIA:
The paintings I made at the new Mark Rothko Centre, (Daugavpils, Latvia) are now held in the...