Olivia Fraser was born in 1965 and after graduating with a MA in Modern Languages from Oxford, she spent a year at Wimbledon Art College before moving to India in 1989. Following in the footsteps of her kinsman, James Baillie Fraser, who painted the monuments and landscapes of India in the early 1800’s, Olivia set out to continue where he had left off, painting the architecture of Delhi and its people. In 2005 she decided to study the traditional Indian miniature painting techniques under Jaipuri and Delhi masters and now employs these gem-like stone colors, its unique miniature brush work, and its elaborate decorative and burnished surfaces in her contemporary renditions. Having been especially influenced by Nathdwara pichwai painting and early 19th Century Jodpuri painting, Olivia has been exploring its visual language, reaching back to archetypal iconographies rooted in India's artistic and cultural heritage that can breach borders and be relevant to her hybridized life between East and West. She is married to the historian and author William Dalyrmple and they travel frequently with their three grown children.