Fraser Brinsmead is a Canadian urban realist painter who works out of his studios in Kelowna BC, Edmonton AB and Palm Desert, CA.

In 2014, after 30 years as a professional architect, he retired in good standing from the American Association of Architects and the Royal Architectural Association of Canada to devote himself to a full time career as a professional artist.

Working in oils and acrylics, he paints scenes that vary from intensely urban cityscapes to more natural landscape settings in a representational, painterly style.

Invariably the common thread to his subjects is the presence of people interacting with both the manmade and natural surroundings. The overarching theme is ultimately to reveal our human connection to the land and the places we construct for ourselves.

The compositions vary from highly accurate portrayals of existing places to ideas that form out of Fraser’s imagination, with only elements of real or actual locations. The vantage point is always eye level and the canvases are large and often square to intentionally occupy the viewers entire field of vision. The result is to create the illusion of being able to walk from the gallery directly into the scene.

Fraser has recently self-published a 300-page hard cover coffee table book featuring his works to date entitled The Art of Place, the Urban Realism of Fraser Brinsmead and he has successfully exhibited in galleries across Canada and the United States.