About

Flora Ann Fraser is a Scottish landscape artist currently in her third year studying Fine Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD), University of Dundee. She previously completed a Foundation Diploma in Art & Design at Leeds Arts University, graduating with Merit.

Her practice focuses on shared experiences in Scotland’s wild landscapes, particularly through hillwalking and wild swimming.

Awards:

• George Duncan of Drumfork Scholarship Award, Winner, 2025
  (Awarded for excellence in Fine Art at DJCAD)

My work all begins from a personal place of love, it documents my personal experiences; capturing joyous moments through memory. By blending together place and person I try to reflect my own unique experiences, often in the highlands. My work portrays my personal response to the landscape as a hillwalker/ Munro bagger. Capturing glimpses of the moments when you stop to catch your breath and notice the beauty around you. From something as small as the moss underfoot, to vast skies unfolding, or the smile of a friend who just reached the summit of a Munro. I explore these moments using a range of mediums; paint, print, clay and bronze. I want to portray the balance of external and internal sensations I feel when on a hiking trip to the highlands. The weather may be grey, misty and cold, I might feel exhausted halfway up and want to have a snack break. But my work represents the overpowering sense of belonging and peacefulness. Including people in my work is very important to me. What may read as a generic hooded figure, means something more personal to me. The paintings capture shared experiences; portraying intimate connections that were made on the journey. 

I paint portraits in environments where my sitters feel most at ease, allowing their personality to come through naturally. By working from life, I capture more than just a likeness—I create paintings that embody the essence of the person, their energy, and the world they inhabit.