Fiona Geilinger
Fiona’s varied creative career saw her spend a decade in broadcast television, before setting up a garden design practice in Brighton. A passion for the drawing element in this work led her to an impactful period of study with artist Nick Bodimeade. This progressed into fine art animation and short films. Fiona’s lifelong love of dance inspired a fascination with the interaction of the body and fabric in motion. Fiona spent twelve years making fine art and commercial short films, while developing a painting career alongside.
Working in acrylics, the clothed figure became Fiona’s focal subject. In 2024, she completed a course with New Masters Academy, studying the drawing of drapery, including the eight different types of folds. She has since been refining her skills in dialogue with a community of successful and knowledgeable painters at the Essential School of Painting in London. Now working with oil paint, she is deepening her investigations into figure and fabric by the close examination of historical masterworks, as well as contemporary paintings that she admires, expanding the ambition of her work and appreciation of it’s context in the art world.
Fiona divides her time between studios in Brighton, UK and Emilia Romagna, Italy.
Upcoming: Art for Christmas, A Group Show – 28 November - 14 December 2025
Contact Natasha with any enquiries.
