Voices of Experience - Douglas Fryer

Lambing Shed 15 x 15” Oil

“Art happens in the heart and in the mind and in the soul, not just in the hand.”

Douglas Fryer’s pensive and atmospheric paintings point to the essences of his subjects. He is recording, in paint, his emotional responses to those places, objects and people that have inspired him and hoping to awaken an emotional response in his viewers.

Fryer studied at Brigham Young University, receiving a BFA in Illustration and an MFA in Painting and Drawing. He has taught fine art and illustration at Brigham Young, the University of Hartford in Connecticut, and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. He lives and paints in the countryside of Spring City, Utah.

We asked him to tell us about his family and how he discovered he was an artist.