1997.  Oil on board, 150 x 120 cm
Private collection, Cape Town

Timmy is the son of Jane Austin-Smith, a fruit farmer in the beautiful Franschhoek valley in the Western Cape region. Jane and Fiona negotiated the commission during the spring of 1996, and Fiona proposed the visual parallels between the young boy in the spring of his life and the orchards with their spring leaves in the fresh morning light, including the spectacular mountain backdrop to the farm. Timmy was playing with his little red car, which Fiona replaced with a red apple to symbolise youthful innocence.

1998. Oil on board, 55 x 45 cm
Private collection, Stellenbosch

1999. Oil on board, 55 x 45 cm
Private collection, Cape Town

2001. Oil on board, 55 x 45 cm
Private collection, Stellenbosch

2001. Oil on board , 55 x 45 cm
Private collection, Stellenbosch

2002. Oil on board, 25 x 20 cm
Private collection, Stellenbosch

2002. Oil on board, 25 x 20 cm
Private collection, Stellenbosch

2002. Oil on board, 25 x 20 cm
Private collection, Stellenbosch

2004. Oil on board, 180 x 160 cm
Private collection, Stellenbosch

After commissioning individual portraits of his two boys, Charles Hunting decided to mark the erection of his new home on the old family farm with a large family portrait posed on the site of the home. They are sitting on a needlepoint blanket, made by Ingrid's friends as a gift marking the birth of their first-born. With them is their much loved sheepdog.

2009. Oil on board , 50 x 40 cm
Private collection, Stellenbosch

2009. Oil on board, 46 x 40 cm
Private collection, Cape Town

2009. Oil on board, 51 x 40 cm
Private collection, Stellenbosch

2009. Oil on board, 95 x 75 cm
KWV Collection, Paarl

This portrait marks Fiona's first official commission, portraying the outgoing Chairman of KWV. The portrait hangs in the KWV boardroom in Paarl and places Fiona, as the first female artist, among an illustrious line of South Africa's foremost portrait painters.

2010. Oil on board, 41 x 35 cm
Private collection, Stellenbosch

Arguably, Charles Hunting's continuing patronage has largely been inspired by his love of family and a fascinating family history. For this pair of portraits Fiona worked from ageing black and white photographs from the 1930's, marking Charles' parents' engagement. Charles wanted them in colour, so Fiona consciously adopted what can best be described as a 'vintage' style of colouring and technique to acknowledge, rather than conceal, the specific photographic aesthetics of her actual subject matter.

2010. Oil on board, 85 x 70cm
Stellenbosch University Collection

Commissioned by Stellenbosch University upon the retirement of Prof van der Merwe, Dean of Health Sciences.

2011. Oil on board, 55 x 45 cm
Private collection, Stellenbosch

2011. Oil on board, 27 x 24 cm
Private collection, Stellenbosch

Often family portrait commissions raise the question of these works becoming family heirlooms. Fiona often advises that, where suitable, individual persons be painted separately to avert the unfortunate tradition of family portraits being cut up upon the death of family benefactors; something that has happened more than once in the past! As with the Van der Westhuizen children, the four grandchildren commissioned by Barbara Willand for her two sons were painted separately. The plan was to give them as gifts to her sons, but she decided she couldn't part with them just yet, so the sons will be inheriting them one day!

2011. Oil on board, 27 x 24 cm
Private collection, Stellenbosch

2012. Oil on board, 120 x 114 cm
Private collection, Stellenbosch

2013. Oil on board, 27 x 24 cm
Private collection, Stellenbosch

2013. Oil on board, 27 x 24 cm
Private collection, Stellenbosch

2014. Oil on board, 120 x 89 cm
Stellenbosch University Collection

This portrait was commissioned by Stellenbosch University to mark Dr Frederick van Zyl Slabbert's term of office as Chancellor of the University. The work was unveiled at the official opening of the van Zyl Slabbert Memorial Archive in the Special Collections of Stellenbosch University Library in October 2015.

2015. Oil on board, 41 x 61 cm
Private Collection, Stellenbosch