Alexander Fraser

1940-2020
Alexander Fraser

Alexander Fraser RSA (1940–2012) was one of Scotland’s most respected painters and influential art educators, celebrated for richly imaginative works that fused memory, mythology and the landscapes of the North-East of Scotland. Born in Aberdeen, he studied at Gray’s School of Art under Robert Henderson Blyth before continuing his development at Hospitalfield, where the painter James Cumming proved a formative influence. Cumming’s demanding and unconventional compositional exercises encouraged Fraser to think beyond direct observation, shaping the poetic and symbolic visual language that would define his mature work.

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Self Portrait in a Box, c.2011

oil on board
H:15cm W:19.5cm
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