About Vanessa Fraser
My name is Vanessa Fraser, this website was created to share my life's work. I'm an artist and freelance Web & Graphic Designer in Brantford Ontario Canada, and graduate of Graphic Design Production at Mohawk College Brantford Campus. I love the richness and challenge of oils, and many of my paintings are intended to bring out what is deep inside my mind, with the hopes of also reflecting what was deep inside the viewer's mind as well.
As an artist, it is also important to me to be known as a bicultural Canadian artist and I am truly hopeful that my artwork will contribute to my heritage. I have a solid view of my future goals and I feel it's a promising and rewarding career, and in many ways I have already made some great achievements fairly early.
I am considered visually impaired but I don't find it to be a hindrance, I think I do quite well...you be the judge.To me, my art isn't simply born from my eyes alone, even if observation must be taken more carefully. It brings an opportunity for more creativity. I also listen, smell and feel even in a spiritual sense all that makes itself known to me. And when I attempt a painting, often those senses will show through in my work. I've heard many times viewers comments, such as "you can almost taste the strawberries."
I was born in Kitchener, Ontario, and adopted by the Fraser family, raised in the township of Brantford in a small community by the municipal airport called Poplar Hills survey. I was always creative and artistic, seeing my world from a deeper perspective. I hope to one day meet my biological family, just to be able to know who I am and where I came from. |
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Future Plans
I plan to continue following a career in Graphic Design and Fine Arts, and hope to attend NSCAD University in Nova Scotia for a B.A. in Fine Arts one of these years. I am drawn to Nova Scotia not only for the College, but it is where my Canadian roots began as a descendant of both the Scottish settlers, Mi'kmaq, and the Black Loyalists who faught on the side of the British during the American Revolutionary War, in return for promises of freedom from enslavement. In future, I hope to spend a few years in Nova Scotia painting and getting to know the people there. |