Rhona Fleming

Rhona Fleming

Artist’s Statement 2026

Rhona Fleming’s practice is concerned with the relationship between things.  Between ideas, between populated areas and negative space, between colours, textures and shapes, and between words and imagination. Working across painting, sculpture, collage and assemblage the medium is selected according to the generating starting point. In painting this can be some drawing from life, a gestural mark or a ground colour or texture. Each subsequent action is made in response to the last and an iterative process of addition and subtraction will ensue. When working with found objects, words, phrases and materials, a similar process is employed yielding a quite different aesthetic but with an underlying continuity of investigation and travel.

In both painting a three dimensional work, Fleming will strive to keep the experience fluid and open ended and as such will rarely provide an explicit description. In this way she believes that the work leaves room for the viewer to complete the narrative, if desired or even felt necessary, leaving it free to inhabit the differing world of differing viewers. In this way she invites them to consider their own interpretation or to simply enjoy the view.

Biography

Rhona Fleming was born and educated in Scotland.  After gaining her architectural qualifications in Glasgow she spent 12 years in practice in London whilst pursuing her fine art interests in drawing and sculpture including a diploma in sculpture at Sir John Cass School of Art.  Since moving to Norfolk in 1992, she has been an architect in private practice expanding her activities to include landscape design (Ecology and Landscape UEA), jewellery design and painting.  

She completed an MA in Fine Art at Norfolk University of the Arts in 2014 and a M.Sc. with distinction in Architectural Conservation at Strathclyde University in 2019.  In 2018 she was an invited artist on a residency, with SSA and BAG Art Camp, Isle of Mull that resulted in the (w)ORD: EBBE + FLOW touring exhibition in Scotland and Norway 2021-24.  In 2019 she was invited to be a professional member of the Society of Scottish Artists and subsequently became a professional member of   Visual Arts Scotland in 2025.

Having recently decided to park her architectural career she is devoting her time to exploring her art practice. 

Selected Exhibitions

Public Collections

NHS Lothian Arts Collection – 2 purchases 2019, 2024

Rhona Fleming B.Sc. B.Arch. MA. MSc.

Professional member of Visual Arts Scotland and The Society of Scottish Artists