Artist’s Statement 

My painting is landscape-based, but it asks questions about our human connections within the world.  It is grounded in my island home of Guernsey, but considers universal issues linked to the notion of contested landscapes - looking at the confluence of the social, political, and geographic; the conflict between the natural world and the ‘manmade’; memory and the personal. Themes that the work touches on include loss and desire, displacement and marginalisation, and the uncanny and otherworldly.

I’m interested in the phenomenological and metaphysical in relation to art, and how art taps into the embodied senses, emotions and physical. Feeling my way through the slippages between the known and unknown, I am led by ideas and feelings and felt sense-experiences.

Drawing in the landscape is often a starting point. It makes me think about past events that have shaped the environment, the people and stories, and the sense of place.

I work intuitively and imaginatively between figuration, abstraction and drawing, enjoying the tensions that this can create with oil paint. I link together the painterly and pictorial through colour and mark-making. A work is complete when it feels emotionally charged and autonomous, but resists an instantaneous reading, inviting the viewer to make their own connections.

Artist’s Bio

Fiona Richmond (b. Guernsey, Channel Islands, 1967) is a painter and visual artist living and working in Guernsey. She has had solo exhibitions in Guernsey and Stockton on Tees, and has been included in group exhibitions at the Gate House Gallery, the George Crossan Gallery and the Guernsey Museum and Art Gallery.

In 2021 she was awarded the Guernsey Arts Open Prize.

Fiona holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Visual Art (Fine Art) and Art History from Middlesex University