Fiona Bastow
Obtaining her degree in Fine Arts (Painting) from RMIT, Fiona Bastow has exhibited in solo and group shows both in Australia and in the US (where she studied whilst on a university exchange scholarship).
Fiona has worked in various positions in the visual arts sector including the art facilitator at Darwin Prison, coordinator of many community arts projects and more recently in her own commercial gallery. After taking a decade long break to raise a family, Fiona is tentative but excited to step back into her studio to pick up where she left off with her painting practice.
I’m not really surprised to find that, despite having a long hiatus from painting, I find myself drawn to the same themes that have always interested me … which is the natural world and how it influences us. My interest in the colours, patterns and relationships found in nature continues to persist. And as always I find myself particularly drawn to the jagged beauty of the Australian landscape with its craggy sculptural plants such as banksias and hakeas. I can’t seem to shake my love of oils and love playing with veils of saturated colour.
