'Surge Channel' 2011 depicts the Archway Islands at Wharariki Beach in Golden Bay, New Zealand. It is typical of Frazer’s oil paintings, where paint has been laid in thick impasto so that it protrudes from the canvas. Frazer works his canvases on the vertical, attached to the wall, and applies the paint in a variety of ways, including rags, brushes and his own hands. Often in the later stages, he flicks the paint with his fingers straight from the tube onto the canvas, the twist of his wrist creating regular, bright loops of colour which articulate the surface of the painting, erupting away from the receding nebulous tones of the background.
