I'm a synaesthetic artist and designer working out of my little studio in Hampshire, UK.  Synaesthesia is simply a cross activation of the senses.  Not many of us have it, and some synaesthetes find it impacts their life in negative ways.  I'm lucky, I am a grapheme-colour, sequence-space and sound-colour synaesthete, which means I see colour when I read words and numbers or listen to music. That's called chromesthesia.  It's impacted my life in a very positive way, and comes into play in all aspects of my creative practice.

My canvases concentrate on the chromesthetic experience, relating abstracted memories that music provokes with the colourful lightshow that only I can see.  These are produced in various mediums as I feel how the light plays across the surface of an artwork is as important as the depth and colour within it.

I studied Graphic Design at Camberwell College of Arts, London, and after graduation quickly became obsessed with following down the path of pens and paint rather than the route of computerised commercialism. And over the past decade have built up a little empire of portrait commissions, abstracted large canvases, record covers and painted anything stationary.

I also became very interested in the way our brains work, the way synaesthete's brains work, the relationship to how musician's brains work and the way we all perceive colour.  I studied that so much that I got a few more letters after my name.  It’s a continuous, evolving study to reveal connections between neuroplasticity and the subconscious and unconscious decisions we make as visual and aural artists.

But back to the pictures... you can find more of my work and commission me at www.karinafraser.com