Fiona Kennedy

Collage artist Fiona Kennedy finds her greatest source of inspiration in color. Harmony, tension, and aggression—Kennedy uses her artistic practice to explore these dynamics that emerge from relationships between colors.

During a painting class at Concord Art that focused on color theory, Kennedy’s teacher, Martha Wakefield, suggested using any extra paint left over on a palette to create color swatches on scraps of paper. “I went home and started mixing my own colors and painting any paper I could find,” Kennedy says. “The papers gave me a chance to move it all around until I found the right balance.”

Through community art classes and exhibitions, Kennedy has “found [her] way back to art in a more focused path” after a career in teaching middle schoolers about ancient civilizations while raising her family. A deep knowledge of ancient history emerges in Kennedy’s artwork at times; ancient Greek and Roman pottery, in particular, “can often be a great reference point for some of my collages,” Kennedy says.

Recently, Kennedy has started creating ceramics as part of her artistic practice. She wants to incorporate shapes from her collage into her ceramics. As Kennedy looks ahead, she feels “really excited about merging collages into a more three-dimensional experience.”

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Large-Scale Collage