Fiona Hawthorne is a visual artist and the wife of English actor Colin Salmon. The couple has been married since 1988 and they have four children.

Fiona Hawthorne was born in Northern Ireland, grew up in Hong Kong, and lives. She currently works between London and New York.

She began her career as a reportage artist capturing London’s emerging young jazz scene, a body of work profiled in the Thames and Hudson’s 80’s dance floor style anthology “Design After Dark.”

Fiona Hawthorne’s drawings graced the pages of Tatler on a regular basis, capturing the English Season’s polo matches, the Henley Regatta, and Harrods tearooms. She was the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s first artist in residence for a year, culminating in a solo exhibition at The Royal Festival Hall.

Hawthorne won a National commission to cover a 100-meter wall area in West London with her interpretation of Europe’s largest street festival, Notting Hill Carnival, due to her love of the festival. The exhibition was seen by 3 million people and was extended for another 6 months, with the images also being used as film and television backdrops in many parts of the world. She is now one of the UK’s leading digital artists, and she is frequently commissioned to draw live at events.