Fiona Graham

Fiona is a Border Scot who spent much of her childhood in Nigeria and Central America where her father was a forester. She left the Borders for London to study with Quentin Blake at the Royal College of Art. She had a studio in Paris before returning to London and then to the tranquility of the countryside near Rye in East Sussex. 

Her recent work, mostly oils, comes from her time in Morocco, The Alhambra, among tribesmen and women in Pakistan and at sea (she sails an ocean going yacht). 

Fiona is also a portraitist, but only paints people who particularly interest her, for example a recent Lord Manor of London and fellow Scot known in the City as Mac Whittington; the wife of a ship owner because the woman has a mysterious beauty and, recently the authorized portrait of Lord Carrington that was selected for the 2008 Spring show of the Royal Society of Portrait Artists. 

The same portrait has been chosen by Viking Penguin for the jacket of a forthcoming biography of Margaret Thatcher's former Foreign Secretary. From 1st 2009 Fiona will become the first official artist-in-residence for the Royal Southampton Yacht Club. 

To see examples of Fiona Graham artwork, please visit her website

Lord Carrington	Portrait of Jilly Baines	A conversation with Sir Francis MacWilliams