About Fiona McTaggart
A collage-led practice shaped by nature, material, and process.
Fiona McTaggart is an artist and designer working between collage and interior surface design.
Based in Dorset, her work draws on the richness of the natural world — its colour, texture, and shifting seasons — translating these observations into layered compositions that evolve into wallpaper and fabric.
Her practice is rooted in making: a slow, tactile process of cutting, arranging, and building form by hand.
Selected Exhibitions & Features
From collage to immersive interiors
Each design begins as a hand-painted collage, built through cutting and layering.
These works evolve into repeat patterns — creating wallpapers and fabrics that bring depth and atmosphere to interior spaces.
A practice built through making
Fiona studied Fine Art Painting before spending over a decade as a secondary school art teacher.
Teaching deepened her understanding of process — how ideas develop through repetition, experimentation, and material exploration.
Later, during her Master’s in Illustration, collage emerged as a natural language within her work, bringing together painting, printmaking, and observation.
As her practice evolved, individual elements began to repeat and connect — forming the foundation of her pattern-based work.
