Work and Serendipity

Having a love for art since a young age, Fraser Williamson (a.k.a. ‘Fraz’) has been doing his incredibly distinguishable work for 35 years. In the early 1990s, he became known as Red Shark Art and Illustration, putting his dreams and musings to canvas, and his love of diversity and the quirky to paper for children’s books. Fraser sees himself as a magpie picking up ideas and styles anywhere, from Mesopotamian bas reliefs to underground comics. His work has been saturated with the ocean, family, beach life, time spent in Tonga and coastal sojourns in La Herradura, Spain.His long term co-conspirators are his brothers, Matthew and Luke, at Halcyon Design. Together they have given life and zest to many a client’s fledgling ideas. Fraser creates wondrous scenes, some of which he doesn’t understand himself, but accepts they don’t need an explanation. It allows people to form their own relationship with his art. Paintings consort with walls in New Zealand, Australia, the United States, England, Spain and Finland. Fraser sees his career to date as a curious combination of work and serendipity. He also buys a new pair of swimming goggles periodically.

fraz@redshark.co.nz
PO Box 33 252, Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand
021 239 9747