FREER, Roy

1938 - 2021

Roy David Freer, was born at Birmingham in 1938, youngest of the nine children of Joseph Freer (30 July 1888-1957), iron & steel warehouseman, and his wife Mary Ann née Hoccom (26 August 1897-1981), who married at Birmingham in 1920 and in 1939 were living at 221 Park Road, Birmingham. Roy studied at Bournville School of Art 1953-1956, Birmingham School of Art 1956-1958, and Birmingham University Art Teachers' Centre in 1968. An artist in oil and watercolour and an art course tutor, organiser, and lecturer. Elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in 1967, Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1989 and the New English Art Club in 2000 and where he regularly exhibited. Since becoming a professional artist, Roy Freer's work has shown a single-minded focus in using overlays of rich colour to depict still life, figure, and landscape as a way of presenting a visual understanding of his subject, working from a familiar selection of either studio based still life objects or outdoor features. He exhibited at the Royal Academy also showing at Manor House Gallery, Chipping Norton; The Catto Gallery, London; The Cedar House Gallery, Surrey; Hunter Gallery, Bury St Edmund's, Suffolk; Chappel Galleries, Essex and elsewhere. He married at Birmingham in 1963, artist Sally Freer and they lived at 5 Bridgefoot, Cross Street, Sudbury, Suffolk. Roy David Freer died at Sudbury, Suffolk on 3 March 2021.

Royal Academy Exhibits
from 31 High Street, Clophill, Bedfordshire
1982 1080 Corner, Verticals and Kettle

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Works by This Artist