Fiona Morehouse.

guiding us home to our vast, true nature.

Excavating layers of human earth connection, I paint landscapes from the inside out. With oils on canvas and gouache on paper, I emphasize the reciprocal nature of the internal and external, the micro and macro. Both a personal interrogation and a reflection on humanity, she continually seeks to deconstruct a mechanistic worldview, aligning with a reality consisting of networked relationships and living systems. Trusting that what we perceive from above is equally influenced by what lies below, I call the subtle realms to the surface, emphasizing how these energies affect our relationship to power, purpose, place, and space.

Adhering to the principle of ‘As Above So Below, So Within As Without’, the research for my work is inspired by committed meditation and mindfulness practices, conversations with the earth, along with an interest in quantum physics, deep ecology, and deep time.

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Fiona is a global artist who has studied art in Italy, made art in India, and taught art in New Zealand and Central America. She has founded and directed 3 studio art schools and co-owned and operated an art gallery and cooperative artist studio space. She has developed integrative arts curriculums, taught wilderness based education, and facilitated multiple interdisciplinary, intergenerational workshops across the US. In 2020 she shifted her focus from offering experiential place based immersive arts programming and running a ceramic arts business to working as an exhibiting artist full time.

She has several permanent public art installations across the United States and has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Fiona studied fine art and music at McDaniel College where she received her BFA in 1999. She continued graduate study in ceramic art at Hood College, followed by coursework in painting and encaustics at The Art Students League in New York.

Growing up between Mishawaka Indiana and Croton-on-Hudson New York, Fiona has lived and worked in Frederick MD, Catalina Island CA, Hood River OR, and now currently splits her time between Putney VT and Vinalhaven ME, where she lives close to the land and makes art from the earth.

“If you imagine the house as a vertical being, it rises upward toward the heavens while also reaching downward, rooting itself into the earth.”  -Poetics Of Space, Gaston Bachelard

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