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.