Fiona Francois

Fiona is an Australian artist living in Tasmania. Formerly a video game artist and graphic designer, she now creates her own unique style of imaginative realism. Preferring charcoal and graphite pencil these days to 3D computer software, her work is dramatic, emotive, intricately detailed and imaginative. Her work centres around the divine feminine; exploring our precarious relationship with nature at the same time imagining a return to oneness with the wilderness through the awakening of the feminine. Fiona brings the beauty of the natural world to life as a feminine character using familiar symbols such as the Tree of Life or the personification of the essence of a location. In this way she invites people to respond and relate at an emotional level to the most significant challenge of our time - preventing our devastating impact on the environment and embracing the feminine to heal and bring into balance our oneness with each other and nature.

* This statement has been provided directly by the artist in association to their 16^th International ARC Salon entries. This content has not been edited for typos or grammatical errors and has not been vetted for accuracy.