Fiona Stokes-Gilbert Art

Artist Fiona Stokes Gilbert comes from the greater Los Angeles area. She is a designer and an illustrator who has spent more than 3 decades designing consumer products and textiles for companies such as Mattel, Disney, Nickelodeon, Franciscan dinnerware, and Warner Brothers. While Fiona enjoys the possibilities that open up when working digitally, she never stray too far from drawing and painting which she considers to be her first love. Fiona considers art as a learning process where one moves from the familiar and the known to the mysterious and unknown. She also sees art as a means through which she communicates her emotions and feelings to her viewers. Every single piece she does, even if she completes it digitally, must start as an original painting. Fiona is very fond of pattern and she integrates it frequently into her work. She is a graduate of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California from where she obtained her BFA. After graduation she has continued to study and explore her art, with further study at The School of Visual Arts in NYC and at Otis Parsons, UCLA, broadening her skill set in different areas; from digital techniques to traditional drawing and painting. Fiona’s mediums of choice have been gouache and watercolor; however she has more recently been experimenting with mixed media and acrylic. Framed Fiona Stokes Gilbert art are in great demand allover the world. Fiona’s art has been to many exhibitions and is found in many private homes and also in many private and public institutions and galleries.