Fiona Celia Goldbacher (20th century), a marble and hardstone abstract sculpture of hollowed form, on a separate marble base, 39 cm high x 12.5 cm wide.

Fiona has worked as a sculptor in alabaster, marble and terracotta for the past forty years; at her home and studio in Pietrasanta Tuscany, near the marble centre of Carrara, where she used to spend half the year. Pietrasanta has a thriving community of sculptors and artisans. She has had many exhibitions there: of her series of large figurative and abstract pieces, based on dance movements in travertine, carrara and pink rosa portogallo marble, and of her series of mother and child pieces in alabaster and soapstone. When In London she works mainly on her flower paintings and landscapes in gauche or oils. She has exhibited her paintings in London, Morocco and Japan.