Fiona Carver is a painter from the Rutland/Leicestershire border. She trained at Edinburgh College of Art graduating with a BA (hons) in Furniture Design before becoming a London based picture framer and gallery manager. Returning to Rutland in 2014 gave her the inspiration to start painting again and she now creates observational oil paintings from life, both en plein air and in her studio.
She is drawn mainly to domestic still lifes, inspired the shapes and colours of the objects she has around her. She looks at the relationships between the items and how the arrangement and composition can draw the viewer in. Her low-key palette gives the paintings a quiet, intimate quality, leaving the viewer with a sense of calm
She has exhibited with the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and been shortlisted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. In 2024 she won the Daler-Rowney award at The Artist and Leisure Painter Exhibition, following on from her British Contemporary Award the previous year. Her work has been included in a number of print making books and has appeared on the cover of Country Living Magazine.
