About Faye
Born in the UK and living in the North East for most of her life, Faye Fox has spent nearly three decades working in the hair and beauty industry, including 23 years running her own salon. Alongside this, she continues to develop her work as a professional artist.
Throughout her years working closely with people, her work became about far more than beauty. It became a space for connection, conversation, and quiet support.
Years of listening to people’s stories, witnessing quiet moments of courage, and celebrating life’s milestones have shaped the way she sees the world. That same curiosity and compassion now find their way into the canvas.
Working primarily in oils, Faye creates atmospheric paintings inspired by story, nature, and quiet beauty found in becoming. Her work often weaves together symbolic wildlife, the sea, movement, and light, inviting the viewer to pause, reflect, and wander somewhere beautiful.
Inspired by the dramatic coastline and rich history of the North East England, her paintings are guided as much by imagination as by place. They explore journeys, both outward and inward, celebrating wonder, resilience, and the quiet power that lives within us all.
Each painting is an invitation to slow down, to notice beauty, and to reconnect with a sense of adventure, hope, and possibility.
Every painting is an invitation. Come with me somewhere beautiful…
Original paintings and fine art prints are available through the shop.
Faye Fox with her painting Braveheart
Original painting sold. Fine art prints coming soon.
Influences and inspiration
The Swing
Original French title: Les hasards heureux de l'escarpolette (“The Happy Accidents of the Swing”)
Artist: Jean‑Honoré Fragonard
Date: around 1767–1768
Style: Rococo
Medium: Oil on canvas
The elegance, light, and storytelling of the Rococo painters continue to inspire my work today. Their ability to create worlds that feel both dreamlike and alive has had a lasting influence on my own paintings.
While my subjects are contemporary, I share a love of atmosphere, movement, symbolic beauty, and the invitation to step beyond the everyday into somewhere imagined.
Working in oils, I combine these classical influences with inspiration drawn from the North East coastline, wildlife, history, and the stories that shape us.