Tim Fraser

For years Tim Fraser has been exercising his painterly instincts along the Stanley Park seawall by composing endless combinations of shapes, line and colour – giving this beloved Vancouver landmark its due treatment. As a motif the seawall can be seen as a symbol of leisure, physically framing the landscape to suggest a possible ethnology of Vancouver’s active culture. Through his practice, Tim intersects painting and walking as meditative pastimes, his pictures delving into a formalist abstraction of feeling. Morphed into a serotonin-soaked haze of idyllic colour, Fraser’s imagination evokes the pleasure of navigating a sun-drenched, candy coloured world, where one need only consider the sun glancing off the path in luminous swoops and curves.

Passage

2020
Oil on canvas
36″ x 48″
SOLD

Inversion

2020
Oil on canvas
36″ x 48″
SOLD

Canopy

2020
Oil on canvas
36″ x 48″
$5,300.00

CV

Education
Fine Arts Program
Kwantlen College, Surrey, BC (1985)

Awards
2002 First Prize – Painting, Arts 2002 Juried Exhibition, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC
2000 Third Prize, Fraser Downs Raceway Art Exhibition, Surrey, BC
1996 Third Prize, Hastings Park Raceway Art Exhibition, Vancouver, BC

Solo Exhibitions
2020 “Flow”, Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2018 “Lit”, Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2013 “Colour Play”, Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2011 “Colour Composed”, Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2010 Two-Person Show, Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2009 “Path into Colour”, Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2008 “City Park”, Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2007 “Seawall Composed”, Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2006 “Seawall in Colour”, Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Group Exhibitions
2016 Summer Group Show, Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2015 Summer Group Show, Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Spring Group Show, Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Winter Group Show, Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2014 Summer Group Show, Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver BC
Spring Group Show, Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2012 Summer Group Show, Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Summer Group Show, Ian Tan Gallery, Hong Kong
San Francisco Art Fair, with the Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Winter Group Show, Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2005 Untitled Group Show, Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2004 Group Show, Gala Gallery, West Vancouver, BC
2003 Group Show, Gala Gallery, West Vancouver, BC
Group Show, Kurbatoff Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2002 Arts 2002, Juried Exhibition, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC
1999 Arts99, Juried Exhibition, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC
1996 Arts96, Juried Exhibition, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC

Curatorial Work
2015 “Into the Mystic Art Exhibition” for Semiahmoo Arts, Turnbull Gallery, South Surrey, BC
2014 “2014 Members Exhibition” for Semiahmoo Arts, Turnbull Gallery, South Surrey, BC
“PEPA’KEN” for Semiahmoo Arts, Turnbull Gallery, South Surrey, BC
“Richard Tetrault & Mural Artists” for Semiahmoo Arts, White Rock, BC
“Art O’ the Green” for Semiahmoo Arts, White Rock, BC
“Expressions Festival” Exhibition for Surrey locations of Arts Umbrella, Surrey, BC
2013 “Members Exhibition” for Semiahmoo Arts, White Rock, BC
“Expressions Festival” Exhibition for Surrey locations of Arts Umbrella, Surrey, BC
“Auld Acquaintance II” for the Fort Gallery, Fort Langley, BC
2012 “Auld Acquaintance” for the Fort Gallery, Fort Langley, BC

Commissions and Donations
Donation, Splash!, Arts Umbrella (2016)
Donation, Art for Life Fundraiser (2012)
Donation, Stanley Theatre Art Auction, Vancouver, BC (2005)
Commission work for the Central City Jazz Festival, Surrey, BC (2003)
Donation, Air Canada Championship PGA Event, Surrey, BC (1996 – 2002)

Collections
Linda Gainer Collection, Seattle, WA, USA
J. M. Leckie Collection, West Vancouver, BC
Lakes Straith Collection, North Vancouver, BC
Cameron Beckman Collection, San Antonio, TX, USA
Mark Wilhelmi Collection, Augusta, Georgia, USA