Fiona Stevenson features this week in a cutting-edge London-based arts magazine – New Wave.
The feature, on artists and disability, looks at how Fiona’s work expresses her experience.
“When I gaze at her canvases, I feel that there is a universality in her expression. Her paintings, whether large or small scale, infused with vivid colour or monotone, are intimate and emotive,” writes New Wave columnist Bella Temple-Cass.
“Upon viewing Fiona’s paintings, we may consider the positive creativity that lies in our intimate emotions and take inspiration from her artistic display of them.
“Fiona’s honest expression of her morals and emotions is an inspiration, as her vulnerability encourages the viewer to consider their own sentiments. Whether they align with the artist’s or not, an awareness of our own intimacies may bring us closer to ourselves and others. Through her ‘expressions of experience’ Fiona encourages an interconnectivity that is free from judgement, perhaps a transformation from sites of authority we commonly find ourselves in today.”
About her 2024 acrylic on canvas, Joy, she writes: “The energy of the surge of emotion is captured within each brushstroke. An intensity of layered, haphazard drips of paint swirl around the canvas, a visual evocation of joy. There is an energised eruption that begs the viewer to set their gaze upon the abundance of intimate detail. While almost every viewer can relate to that rush of excitement that accompanies joy, the intimacy of painting is that each mark made is a representation of Fiona’s own experience of joy.”
Fiona’s father, Andrew Stevenson commented: “It’s interesting to reflect on whether Fiona’s disability is in fact a disability or a benefit when it comes to creating the powerful mark making images she produces.”
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