Cameron Iona is a Bristol-based artist whose studies in philosophy shape her way of seeing - particularly the area of phenomenology, which considers how we encounter the world through lived and embodied experience.

Influenced by her travels across Europe and the expressive graffiti culture of Bristol, her paintings engage with the idea of the Umwelt. From the German for “environment” or “surrounding world,” Umwelt describes how each being’s experience is shaped by the particular capacities of its senses and perceptual systems. 

Cameron is fascinated by the way art can act as a bridge between these private realities, offering not fixed truths but glimpses into experience. “Art is our best attempt at expressing the inexpressible, and there’s beauty in the effort, because it can never fully reveal what it means to experience something as we do."

Her paintings function as open invitations, leaving space for the viewer to step inside each scene, reinterpret, and co-create. In this way, her work becomes less about answers and more about dialogue. “Rather than freezing a moment, a painting makes it immortal - allowing it to evolve through the eyes of each viewer.”