Biography
Simon Fraser (b. Inverness, Scotland, UK 1950) studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford, and Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen (1968–72). 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). 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.