Fiona Pocock Corn

Background:
Raised in Italy, Fiona P. Corn was nurtured by the treasures of the Italian countryside and the Italian 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 Gruppe, 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 artists such as Barbara Nuss, Don Stone, Matt Smith, John Budicin, Ron Rencher and Ralph Oberg. These workshops took her to the Hill Country of Texas, pastoral Vermont, the Allegheny mountains of Pennsylvania, Eastern Shore 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 and luminous studies.

Affiliations:
Fiona is a member of the prestigious Washington Society of Landscape Painters (WSLP) and the Oil Painters of America (OPA), both Juried organizations with limited memberships. She is also an active member of the American Institute of Conservation (AIC) the Art League in Alexandria, Virginia, and the Allied Artists Of America. 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, Marth's Vineyard, Florida, Turkey, and St. Lucia, and she plans many more painting trips in the United States and abroad.
In 2003 she travelled to the west coast and Italy to paint. She also had a baby boy named Liam, in October.
Although her house and studio is still in Alexandria, Virginia, summer of 2004 she moved to Romania with her family for 2 years were she painted the breath-taking landscape of the Carpathian Mountains, the Black Sea, the Danube Delta and the Transylvania region. She also gave birth to baby girl Sofia in March of 2005, and baby boy Tristan in April 2006.