Fiona Millar

Fiona is a self taught painter, living and working in the Scottish Borders. She has worked as a picture framer since she left school, specialising in hand finishes, and began painting in 2000. She works mostly in acrylic, on canvas and board, with occasional flourishes of texture using collage and gold leaf. Her landscapes are influenced by the coastlines and rolling hills of Galloway, where she spent a lot of her childhood. Whilst her still life paintings often feature elements of her own home and family collections, she doesn't paint from life, but from accumulated memories and ideas formed over the years. A great deal of her inspiration comes from other artists including the Scottish Colourists and the Glasgow Boys & Girls, along with the art deco, art nouveau, and arts & craft movements.