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A Journey Within

by Olivia Fraser

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Author Olivia Fraser

Publisher HarperCollins

Synopsis As time passes, Fraser seems to dive deeper and deeper into ancient Indian thought, to come up with new, dew-drop-fresh images’ — B.N. Goswamy A Journey Within documents Olivia Fraser’s acclaimed paintings over the last decade which reflect her remarkable inner quest to express complex abstract thoughts in seemingly simple visual language. Following her induction into Indian miniature painting in a traditional Jaipur atelier, Fraser’s focus shifted from painting the world around her, and her art evolved to depict the journey from a physical landscape towards a metaphysical one. She is especially influenced by Nathdwara pichwai paintings and early nineteenth-century Jodhpuri Mansinghperiod imagery, produced by the Nath yogis, whose visual language reaches back to an archetypal iconography rooted in India’s deepest and most philosophical artistic heritage. The work Fraser has produced inspired by these twin muses is nevertheless profoundly contemporary, breaching both temporal and geographical borders, emerging as it does from her twin life between East and West. ‘These are “visionary” works … born in the mind’s eye of the artist, and they re-focus the mind’s eye of the viewer’ — Robert Macfarlane

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Binding: HardBack

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Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 208
Binding: HardBack

ISBN: 9789353573942
Category: Art & Culture
Related Category: Society