Lyn Fraser-Roberts

I am an award winning artist, based on the Sunshine Coast, QLD, working full time painting and teaching in a wide range of media and subject matter. Painting in the Impressionist Realist style, my training was undertaken in Melbourne with Frank Gill, who studied with Max Meldrum.

My work hangs in galleries in Brisbane, Gold Coast, Ipswich and the Sunshine Coast. Major solo exhibitions have been held in Brisbane at Deward’s Fine Art Gallery Greenslopes, Manly Art Gallery Manly, Hang Ups Gallery Red Hill and The Sheraton Noosa. I have also participated in several joint exhibitions.

Over recent years I have become well known for my floral paintings in oil, acrylic, pastel and watercolour, ranging in size from small and simple to large complex works. Other work includes landscape, seascape, portraiture and still life usually vibrant and on a large scale  in all mediums, I enjoy the challenge of different subject matter and experimenting with colour, texture and style.

In addition to painting I have been teaching for 20 years, travelling throughout Queensland and NSW teaching Art groups from Roma to Ballina, including the Queensland Watercolour Society. I also hold several workshops in my local area, the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane each year.  

Overseas trips to the Greek Islands are conducted annually. I will also be conducting a workshop in Scotland in 2007 and am currently planning a painting trip to Tuscany for 2009. Plein air painting is both challenging and rewarding, offering a valuable painting  experience to student and tutor.

Retrospective Exhibition Toowoomba Nov 2005

“A 10 year retrospective of Fraser-Roberts, a consummate artist who recently relocated to the Toowoomba region. Fraser-Roberts is equally at home with all the traditional genres of landscape, portrait and still life. This polished body of work is indeed a coup for the gallery and offers much for the discerning eye of the aficionado and the collector. While the number of large scale studio works impress with their poetry of form, colour and dexterous technique, it is the selection of small watercolour studies, personal postcards of memory captured in situ during a recent trip abroad, that hold a magical sense of the immediate moment.”  

Sandy Pottinger The Chronical, Sat Nov 12 2005