Lot: 80
Artist: Fiona Graham-Mackay
Title: Lord Carrington preliminary sketch
Medium: Charcoal sketch on paper
Framed size: to be advised
Price range of artists similar works: £250 - £550
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About the artist:
Fiona Graham-Mackay is a Border Scot who spent much of her
childhood in Nigeria and Central America where her father was a
forester. She left the Borders for London to study with Quentin Blake at
the Royal College of Art. She had a studio in Paris before returning to
London and then to the tranquility of the countryside near Rye in East
Sussex.
Her recent work, mostly oils, comes from her time in Morocco, The
Alhambra, among tribesmen and women in Pakistan and at sea (she
sails an ocean-going yacht). FG-M is also a portraitist, but only paints
people who particularly interest her, for example a recent Lord Mayor of
London and fellow Scot known in the City as MacWhittington; the wife of
a shipowner because the woman has a mysterious beauty and, recently,
the authorized portrait of Lord Carrington that was selected for the 2008
spring show of the Royal Society of Portrait Artist. The same portrait has
been chosen by Viking Penguin for the jacket of a forthcoming biography
of Margaret Thatchers former Foreign Secretary.
From June 1st 2009 Fiona will become the first official artist-in-residence
for the Royal Southampton Yacht Club. The residency will run for a two-
year period which will involve Fiona in all aspects of the Club's activities,
including Cowes Week and The Biscay Challenge.
Three times a year, Fiona also teaches drawing and oils at her Beckley
studio and has started an annual festival of painters and writers being
together the two disciplines in new expressions of imagery.