Frances Featherstone’s work and practice have been featured across international print, broadcast, and digital media. Her profile and editorial features include Beautiful Bizarre, Marie Claire, Flow, Artist & Illustrator, and Arts to Hearts. On television, Frances appeared on BBC’s The One Show with Nick Grimshaw in 2025 and on Sky Arts in 2020. Her insights on contemporary painting have also been shared across notable industry podcasts, including The Creative Kind, Painting Insights, and AArt.
Selected media highlights include:
RSA Journal
Leah Clarkson, editor of RSA Journal, profiles award-winning oil painter Frances Featherstone, highlighting her exploration of women’s private worlds through her most recent series, From the Perspective of the Angels. By capturing personal rituals across generations, Featherstone’s work celebrates reflective domestic life, encouraging viewers to pause, dream and appreciate the ordinary.
Issue 01 | 2026
Beautiful Bizarre Magazine
Issue 51 | December 2025
Maps of Solitude
A 10 page interview by Loreena Kloosterboer in Beautiful Bizarre Magazine
Flow Magazine
Issue 40 | May 2025
3 paintings featured.
Marie Claire Italia
4 page interview
March 2025
BBC One Feature & Royal Academy Arts
National Broadcast Profile | Summer 2025
A nationwide BBC broadcast chronicling the selection and installation of Frances’s dual-canvas submission to the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. Interviewed by broadcaster Nick Grimshaw, the feature highlighted the conceptual development behind the works, culminating in Frances being awarded the prestigious Maire Ragnhild Hollingsworth Prize for Oil Painting.
Painting Insights Interview
An interview focusing on the technical evolution of the studio practice, exploring oil methodologies and the geometry of contemporary figuration.
Podcast
A conversation with host Chris Stafford on structural storytelling, aerial perspectives, and the creative evolution of the studio practice.
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Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Week
National Broadcast Feature | 2020
Watch the broadcast moment Frances was awarded winner of Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Week for her portrait of celebrated author Bernardine Evaristo.
Interview by Artshaus Gallery
Artist in the Spotlight
An in-depth career interview exploring the artist's studio methodology, formal influences, and creative trajectory.