Artist, born in Inverness, who studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford, and Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, 1968–72. Whether he worked in oil on canvas or in colour or black-and-white etchings, Fraser’s art was permeated by poetry and mythology, especially Celtic myth. He illustrated the poetry of George Mackay Brown, Aonghas MacNeacail and T S Eliot. Group shows included Contemporary Landscape, Edinburgh City Art Centre, 1985, and Newcastle Maritime Festival, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, and The Human Touch, Fischer Fine Art, both 1986. He had a series of solo shows throughout Britain, starting with Bristol Arts Centre and Plymouth Hoe Theatre, both 1979, later ones including An Lanntair, Stornoway, and Peacock Printmakers, Aberdeen, both 1985, and Artspace Galleries, Aberdeen, 1986.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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