Fiona has maintained a photography practice for over 30 years. She currently works from her Devon-based studio in the South West of England.

Her photography career began in 1992 when she moved to the Hudson River Valley region of New York, USA. Influenced by American luminaries such as Edward Weston, Irving Penn and Imogen Cunningham, Fiona took full advantage of the New England landscape, while developing her skills in film photography and darkroom practices at college.

During the early 2000s - having made the transition from analog to a digital photographic process - Fiona spent two years in South Carolina photographing the social rather than the natural landscape. Fiona’s academic background in the social sciences (BSc / MA) underpinned these social documentary projects and continues to inform her current work exploring the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Since returning to Devon, Fiona’s work has become significantly more introspective and personally motivated. Now primarily studio based, her recent work is very much influenced by the methodical and systematic approach of typology to document a particular subject. Through Fiona’s recent study of botanical subjects, the repetition of the process creates a quietly ordered sense of peace and solitude. The simple, graphic abstractions of pressed and preserved botanical specimens are intended to reconnect us to a quiet and reflective space - detaching us momentarily from the increasingly chaotic, existential disorientation of life in the 21st century.