Frances Hatch

Frances Hatch’s work can be seen below. Please click on an image to see details and price. Please phone us on 44 (0)1308 459511 or email on gallery@sladersyard.co.uk to enquire about any of Frances Hatch’s work. All paintings are presented framed.

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  Warm Mist veils Swyre Head, Lulworth 38 x 72

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  Fierce First Light 36 x 72 cm

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  Radipole Supermoon Set, Weymouth 30 x 30 cm

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  Fly-Away Waves, Eype 30 x 30 cm

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  Walking West of Eype Mouth. Lovely day. 16 x 44 cm

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  Thin afternoon cloud, pale sun, Eype 16 x 22 cm

FRANCES HATCH developed her plein air practice not only to make work outdoors but to involve the materials she finds around her in the landscape, collecting earth, rocks, minerals and litter to use as her palette. Wild fruit juices, puddle mud and raindrops bespeckle her sketchbooks. Armed simply with paper and a portable toolkit containing some gouache, watercolour or acrylic paint and a binding medium, Frances heads off to the beach often by moonlight to create her response to the place at the time she finds it.

Warm Mist Veils Swyre Head, Lulworth 38 x 88 cm

Frances Hatch studied visual art at Cambridge, Aberystwyth and Goldsmiths and has an MA in printmaking from Wimbledon College of Art. She has always painted outdoors. Her work has grown in strength and confidence following a trip to Antarctica in 2005 followed by a Research Bursary from DVA/ExLab which supported her study of the history and craft of making and consolidating pigments. She has been a senior tutor at West Dean College since 1995, has published books about her projects and contributed to other books both as an illustrator and practitioner.

She has exhibited throughout the UK and in London and had her first show at Sladers Yard in 2015. Frances was awarded the Shenzhen International Watercolour Biennial Prize at the  Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) exhibition at the Mall Galleries 2016: ‘An award to encourage innovation and experimentation in contemporary watermedia.’

Walking West of Eype Mouth. Lovely day. 16 x 44 cm

The booklet Chesil Moons with words by Frances Hatch, a new poem by Elisabeth Bletsoe and foreword by Steve Batty is available at £12 plus £1.50 p&p within UK.  32 pages. Full colour throughout. 14.6 x 19 cm. Published by Sladers Yard.