Frederick Hutchinson Page

Fred Page is best-known for his eerie images which, according to one critic, have made him known as ‘a kind of Hitchcock among painters’.1 Page always used a limited colour range in his work, mostly employing either tempera or acrylic. The artist often claimed that he limited his palette to black and white because of his dire financial circumstances. Page’s early life was unsettled. He lost his mother when he was ten, and was passed from relative to relative, even spending some time in an orphanage in Dundee. Read More…