Fergus Graham was a self taught artist and career soldier - serving in the Grenadier Guards. During the 1920's and 30's he was given solo exhibitions at The Redfern Gallery and the Lefevre Gallery in London. After the war he had further exhibitions at Colnaghi in London These proved very successful and encouraged Graham to focus exclusively on painting. He went on to develop an interest in surrealism and his greatest strength was his profound understanding of line. Writing about his work in 1969 Edward Crankshaw noted - 'It is a vision of extreme delicacy, often austere. It expresses itself increasingly as a disturbing combination of the world of appearance, meticulously rendered, and his feeling for the reality behind appearances. Even in the early days when Graham was primarily concerned with the representation of aspects of the world we all know, he would show along side his domestic interiors, his flower-pieces, his landscapes, wholly visionary paintings which had a flavour of surrealism before surrealism became the vogue.' Graham's work is represented in several public collections including the Contemporary Art Society, the Government Art Collection and the Manchester Art Gallery.