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Fiona Masterton, Blue Bayou
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Fiona Masterton, The Vagrant
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SHOW & TELL
FIONA MASTERTON, BA PAINTING,
WIMBLEDON COLLEGE OF ARTS
How would you describe your work
I combine photography, digital art and paint; mainly
on canvas, although I’ve been known to venture
onto both found and other objects. My work is
about crossing borders, not only in process, but in
image juxtaposition, mark-making and between
reality and the imagination. I try to convey a
sense of suspense and fluctuation and portray
indefinable forms that suggest different points of
departure depending on who is looking at it.
How has your work developed in your final year
I have become a lot more honest in my practice in
that I acknowledge that process has become much
more of a leading force. The inspiration in terms of
subject matter for the actual work may shift but the
one continuum is the dynamics and patterns within
the digital and painting processes that I use.
What are you doing for your degree show
I am working on paintings that best illustrate my
current concerns in terms of the ebb and flow
between the digital and the painted mark, between
the abstract and the figurative, of the idea of a
perpetual shift in reality. I use the mundane and the
vernacular as starting points to do this.
What would you like your degree show to achieve
I’d like my degree show to attract people from a
distance and then draw them in to have a closer
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look. I aim to intrigue, inspire and stimulate the
imagination.
Do you hope to sell any of your work and are
sales important to you at this stage
I would very much like to sell my work but the most
important thing for me is to raise its profile and get
it known.
Are you nervous
Yes, I am nervous and excited as well. I am fretting
a little, too. There is so much to do in preparation.
Have you shown your work in public before,
outside of an art school context
Yes, I have been involved in a number of exhibitions
outside of college – all group shows, but with
friends, other students or alumni from the art
school. Long may this continue.
What’s next after graduation
The stark reality is that I have to focus on getting
some money coming in, so I will be looking for
employment. I have done a little commercial work
creating electronic book covers, so I may develop
this further. Alongside that I will carry on developing
my practice and exhibiting when I can. I would like
to apply to do a Masters in the not too distant future.
BA Painting degree show, 13-21 June,
Wimbledon College of Arts, Merton Hall Road,
London SW19.
Fiona Masterton is an a-n student blogger
“I am working on
paintings that
illustrate my current
concerns in terms
of the ebb and flow
between the digital
and the painted
mark, the abstract
and the figurative”
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