[3] He completed his secondary education at Bryanston where he was taught sculpture by Donald Potter and painting by Elizabeth Muntz.
[2] The school's Director of Fine Art Derek Hill[5] encouraged Fry to travel throughout Italy during his residency.
On his return to the UK Fry took up a teaching post at the Bath Academy of Art, then located at Corsham Court in Wiltshire, alongside Terry Frost, Peter Lanyon, William Scott and Howard Hodgkin.
[1] From 1961 to 1963 a Harkness Fellowship took Fry to the United States[6] where he was greatly influenced by the American Abstract Impressionists, notably Mark Rothko and Morris Louis.
During this period he made several long painting trips to Malta, Spain and Morocco[1] and showed his work regularly at exhibitions in London.
[1][8] In an essay entitled 'A Certain Tradition of Heat', John Berger wrote: "Fry's pictures – like all good visual art – defy words.
Includes essays on Fry by John Berger, Tom Stoppard, Andrew Lambirth, Bloomsbury Set member Frances Partridge, Bryan Roberston and Cathy Courtney.