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Fiona Pocock Corn
Working in
oils, Fiona Pocock Corn strives to capture romantic landscapes in an
impressionistic style using predominately the palette knife. She strives to depict the vibrant,
fresh and spontaneous beauty of nature with passionate color and textured
impasto. Inspired by the magical beauty of the outdoors, she paints on location
whenever possible, completing larger works in the studio. Capturing the moment
on canvas is pure exhilaration… And with every new painting, she further
develops and refines her singularly wonderful gesture.
Background:
Raised in Italy, Fiona P. Corn was nurtured by the treasures of
the Italian countryside and cultivated by its artistic heritage. The daughter
of avid art collectors, she was exposed to European masterpieces from an early
age. She was trained as a professional painting conservator at the Istituto per
L'Arte e il Restauro in Florence, one of the world's premier conservation academies, and spent the next ten
years restoring paintings for prominent museum and private art collections. In
1996 she opened Boxwood Antiques and Fine Art in Alexandria, Virginia, where
she exhibited original oils by important American artists from the 19th and
20th centuries. Surrounded by
works from artist such as Emile Gruppé, Aldro Hibbard, and Anthony Thieme, she
was inspired to wet her brushes again, following the Plein Air tradition of the
great American landscape painters.
Education:
Fiona P. Corn has attended workshops by nationally respected
contemporary artists, including Don Stone, Matt Smith, John Budicin, Ron
Rencher, Ralph Oberg., T. M. Nicholas, Skip Whitcomb, Guy Fulkenberry and
Camille Przewodek. These workshops took her to the Hill Country of Texas,
pastoral Vermont, the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania, the Eastern Shore of
Maryland and Monhegan Island. The diversity of scenery found in these locations
and the intense inspiration she gained from her teachers evoked the passion
that one sees in her balanced, luminous and colorful studies.
Affiliations:
- Washington Society of
Landscape Painters (WSLP)
- Oil Painters of America (OPA)
- Allied Artist of
America (AAA)
- American Impressionist Society
- American Institute of Conservation (AIC)
- Art League in Alexandria,
Virginia
She exhibits her works in numerous galleries and in Public
Institutions throughout the United States. In 2002 she was one of only
seventy-five artists selected nationwide to participate in the prestigious
“Carmel Plein Air Invitational.” She also has been selected to attend the Southeastern
Regional Oil Painter’s of America Show in Richmond, Virginia. In 2002 she
painted in California, Martha’s Vineyard, Florida, Turkey, and St. Lucia. In 2003 she traveled to the North
American west coast and Italy to paint. In 2004 she moved to Romania with her
family for 2 years where she painted breathtaking landscapes of the Carpathian
Mountains, the Black Sea, the Danube Delta and the Transylvania region.
In 2006 Fiona moved back to Burke in Northern
Virginia where she established her art studio. Between raising a family of
three little children she is still able to produce a fair amount of work and
regularly exhibits in juried shows locally and nationally. Needless to say, Fiona always brings
her pochade box whenever her family travels just in case she can sneak in one
or two plein air sketches. Most
recently, she was one of only 30 artists selected from applicants across North
America to exhibit in the prestigious American Woman Artists National Juried
Competition in Pasadena, California.
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