Kate Fryer obituary

The painter, print-maker and teacher Kate Fryer, who has died aged 106, discovered a talent for drawing as soon as she was old enough to hold a pencil. Her work was figurative, generally impressionistic and in the European tradition, her preferred subject matter including figures in a natural setting, made from drawings done on the spot.She was born in Leeds, one of two daughters of John Fryer, a commercial traveller and descendant of Hull clockmakers, and his wife, Sarah (nee King). Kate attend