Fi Wilkie is a West Australian Artist who lives and works in Margaret River.
Her love of the landscape, country living and the natural world inspire her work. Surrounded by the native flora and fauna in Margaret River, Western Australia, Artist Fi Wilkie is drawn to observe the delicate change of seasons, the contrast of chaos and order in the bush landscape and the stories of connection that exists within it.
In 2023 Fi visited the Cannery Arts Centre for a residency, hosting a collage workshop and exploring our natural environment for her Wander Out Yonder exhibition creating ‘Drinking in the Sunshine-Banksia speciosa’ a painted paper collage of our New Holland Honey Eaters in a frenzy of delight in a forest of Banksia speciosa (Showy Banksia) “When we visited Esperance in the late Summer - we walked and walked through an amazing jungle path lined on both sides with 4 metre high flowering Banksia speciosa-I’ll never forget it!” This is one of a series of artworks created for her Wander Out Yonder series. Her other Esperance inspired work is Rock Hop and Bloom at Lucky Bay, showcasing pig face, rock parrots and beach loving kangaroos, "if you visit Lucky Bay in the Cape Le Grand National Park just East of Esperance you might be lucky to see these lazy macropods lounging on the impossibly white and squeaky sand. Blue water is not a good description - the colour of the water in this part of the world is hard to describe...as is the landscape, the flora and the great people who live there."
Fi’s travels took her to Purnululu and Karijini in the north, to the dryland woodlands near Narrogin, and the southern shores of Flinders Bay in Augusta, as well as other places. Come and see the whole exhibition showcasing artworks from her travels throughout Western Australia.
Fi works as a full-time artist and creates and teaches workshops in drawing, painting and collage. She opens Toot Studio, her home studio, for 2 weeks each year during the Margaret River Open Studios.
Working as a full time exhibiting Artist she designs and teaches workshops to children and adults in both Perth and Margaret River, proudly guiding those keen to build their own creative muscles.
Photo of Fi by Jasmine Ann Gardiner