Chichester exhibition will encourage us to enjoy what is happening over our heads

Fiona, who lives in Stoughton, explains: “The exhibition is a group of ten sky paintings. All in oil on square canvas.

“From daybreak to sunset, they are moments in time – clouds that are there one moment and gone the next. Swirls of moisture that inhabit the space above us. They are a window out into time and space.

“During a career in fashion and textiles , and then interior design, illustration has always been an important part of any project.

“For the past six years work has been completely concentrated on painting patches of sky.

Courses at West Dean College with the tutor Tom Benjamin, taught and then refined the use of oil paint, after a lifetime of watercolour.

“Work has gone to Italy and America as well as in the UK, and membership of the wonderful Cloud Appreciation Society has meant making friends with a like-minded love of the sky, all over the world.

“The clouds and their moods and the light that surrounds them has become a wonderful obsession, and I hope through my paintings that I can encourage people to look up and enjoy what is happening over their heads.”

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