Fiona Carver is a painter from Rutland, England’s smallest county. She trained at Edinburgh College of Art graduating with a BA (hons) in Furniture Design before moving to London where she worked as a gallery and exhibition manager.  Working with artists and painters inspired her own work and when she returned to live in Rutland she began painting again. She now creates observational oil paintings from life, both ‘en plein air’ and in her studio.

Her domestic still lifes have a quiet, intimate quality, drawing the viewer in. She has a collection of favourtie objects she chooses for her compositions, drawn to their colour, shape and relationship to each other within the set up. Her low-key palette adds to gentle calm as the observer is held in reflection.

When the conditions are just right she paints outside ‘en plein air’, either in her local surroundings or further afield on painting trips to the coast.  She is interested in capturing the moment, the atmosphere, colours and emotion experienced at that time.

Fiona has exhibited with the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and been shortlisted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. In 2024 she won the Daler-Rowney award at The Artist and Leisure Painter Exhibition, following on from her British Contemporary Award the previous year. Her work has been included in a number of printmaking books and has appeared on the cover of Country Living Magazine.