Fiona Cawley was born in Co. Sligo in 1970, she grew up in Ballina Co. Mayo and now lives in Kinvara Co. Galway.
In 2015 she graduated with a BA Art and Design Degree (Distinction) from the Centre for Creative Arts and Media, GMIT and was awarded a GMIT Academic Achievement Award.
As an emerging artist she recently had a solo show in the Ballina Arts Centre called "A Shared Space", she has been selected for exhibitions such as Cairde Visual, shortlisted for the Royal Academy of Art Summer Show 2018, was an invited artist at King House, Boyle Arts Festival in "Gathering" 2018, "Facing West" 2017 by curator Paul McKenna and invited to exhibit a Solo Show "GardenLand" in the Arts Corridor, University Hospital Galway (Arts Trust) in 2018.
She was one of three artists exhibiting in a group show Called Terrain which was then postpoined due to Covid 19 from June 2020 but reopened on August 20th in the Custom House Gallery, Westport with Marian McHale and Eileen Ferguson. Her Solo Show in the Ballina Arts Centre reopened on July 20th and ran until the end of August 2020. Please see CV page for more information.
Fiona Cawley's work is an exploration of contemporary landscape, figurative and narrative painting.
As an expressive painter she is passionate about the physical act of paint application and the relationship between colours and gestural brush strokes often varying the application of thin and thick paint. The work is often an emotional response to the landscape and personal life experiences which may initially start as abstracted depictions spontaneously painted with usually no planned, preliminary work done beforehand. She allows the paint to dictate the beginning of each painting and uses her imagination when it comes to the subject matter. In recent work there has been a running theme of the sharing of the landscape with animals and the effect of the man-made on the environment. Work completed during the lockdown which started in March 2020 during the Pandemic was concerned with the artist's confined space of the garden and surrounding landscape, the work was then exhibited in the Westport Custom House Gallery show. She is currently working on a new body of work.
In 2015 she graduated with a BA Art and Design Degree (Distinction) from the Centre for Creative Arts and Media, GMIT and was awarded a GMIT Academic Achievement Award.
As an emerging artist she recently had a solo show in the Ballina Arts Centre called "A Shared Space", she has been selected for exhibitions such as Cairde Visual, shortlisted for the Royal Academy of Art Summer Show 2018, was an invited artist at King House, Boyle Arts Festival in "Gathering" 2018, "Facing West" 2017 by curator Paul McKenna and invited to exhibit a Solo Show "GardenLand" in the Arts Corridor, University Hospital Galway (Arts Trust) in 2018.
She was one of three artists exhibiting in a group show Called Terrain which was then postpoined due to Covid 19 from June 2020 but reopened on August 20th in the Custom House Gallery, Westport with Marian McHale and Eileen Ferguson. Her Solo Show in the Ballina Arts Centre reopened on July 20th and ran until the end of August 2020. Please see CV page for more information.
Fiona Cawley's work is an exploration of contemporary landscape, figurative and narrative painting.
As an expressive painter she is passionate about the physical act of paint application and the relationship between colours and gestural brush strokes often varying the application of thin and thick paint. The work is often an emotional response to the landscape and personal life experiences which may initially start as abstracted depictions spontaneously painted with usually no planned, preliminary work done beforehand. She allows the paint to dictate the beginning of each painting and uses her imagination when it comes to the subject matter. In recent work there has been a running theme of the sharing of the landscape with animals and the effect of the man-made on the environment. Work completed during the lockdown which started in March 2020 during the Pandemic was concerned with the artist's confined space of the garden and surrounding landscape, the work was then exhibited in the Westport Custom House Gallery show. She is currently working on a new body of work.
