Artist in watercolour, pastel and oil, photographer and designer, born in London, who studied at Watford School of Art under Arthur Scott. During World War II Fry was a committed conscientious objector who worked in forestry alongside German and Italian prisoners. Fry was employed as a colour retoucher on the magazine Picture Post and designed neck-ties for Liberty. In 1954, disenchanted with commercial life in London, he moved to Corfe Castle, in Dorset, where he set up his studio. Fry was with his wife Ivy a committed environmentalist, teetotal, living frugally eating a vegetarian diet, who shunned television, the telephone and newspapers and never learned to drive. He cycled around the county carrying a camera loaded with colour transparency film, which he would later project to complete a painting on canvas.