WELCOME
The studio has just relocated to Weymouth 5 minutes away from the rail station- a mainline to London.
I'm marking this transition with
THE WATERSHED LAUNCH EXHIBITION - OPEN STUDIO WEEK: Saturday 17th November - Friday 23rd November 11-5pm.
after this visit by appointment
The studio has just relocated to Weymouth 5 minutes away from the rail station- a mainline to London.
I'm marking this transition with
THE WATERSHED LAUNCH EXHIBITION - OPEN STUDIO WEEK: Saturday 17th November - Friday 23rd November 11-5pm.
after this visit by appointment
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contact:
E: info@franceshatch.co.uk M: 07946903930
E: info@franceshatch.co.uk M: 07946903930
MY PRACTICE
'Geology provides my pigment. Sun, moon, tide and season animate, reveal and conceal. I witness matter on the move: particular, provisional, exquisite.'
Direct work en plein air is central to Frances' practice. She feels her way into the particularity of each site with all her senses. As I write Frances has moved her home and her studio into Weymouth. She is still based along The Chesil Beach but it is Portland that sits in front of her home now. She sees the sea upon waking. Her work will no doubt spring from this new perspective and this new context for her life.
'And that's the real value and privilege in what I do: it is by hanging around in a place that it reveals more and more of itself - and I know that for as long as I can be present to it- that vivid complexity will increase.'
Each site offers its own palette and initiates a way to begin her response… at times she integrates colour (with water-based binders: gouache, acrylic or watercolour) with what is available in the landscape and at others the geology and found material offers all.
When grubbing around for tools and pigments in each environment, she makes discoveries about a place that she might otherwise miss.
If I were to imagine a cloud of creative companions I would be walking with the writer Nan Shepherd, trying to keep up with Richard Long's wide stride, bumping along a track with JMW Turner, expressing watercolour overwhelm with Nolde, mixing colour with Berte Morisot and Gwen John, getting blown about with Joan Eardley (but I wouldn't bother with an easel), listening to rain falling with Thomas Merton (and then probably needing to write too...but certainly not as much), 'reading' a cliff face with geologist Ian West, working with 'what is' with Chris Drury.
And in my nineties I would join Louise Bourgeois in working large and fearlessly.'
October 2018
Direct work en plein air is central to Frances' practice. She feels her way into the particularity of each site with all her senses. As I write Frances has moved her home and her studio into Weymouth. She is still based along The Chesil Beach but it is Portland that sits in front of her home now. She sees the sea upon waking. Her work will no doubt spring from this new perspective and this new context for her life.
'And that's the real value and privilege in what I do: it is by hanging around in a place that it reveals more and more of itself - and I know that for as long as I can be present to it- that vivid complexity will increase.'
Each site offers its own palette and initiates a way to begin her response… at times she integrates colour (with water-based binders: gouache, acrylic or watercolour) with what is available in the landscape and at others the geology and found material offers all.
When grubbing around for tools and pigments in each environment, she makes discoveries about a place that she might otherwise miss.
If I were to imagine a cloud of creative companions I would be walking with the writer Nan Shepherd, trying to keep up with Richard Long's wide stride, bumping along a track with JMW Turner, expressing watercolour overwhelm with Nolde, mixing colour with Berte Morisot and Gwen John, getting blown about with Joan Eardley (but I wouldn't bother with an easel), listening to rain falling with Thomas Merton (and then probably needing to write too...but certainly not as much), 'reading' a cliff face with geologist Ian West, working with 'what is' with Chris Drury.
And in my nineties I would join Louise Bourgeois in working large and fearlessly.'
October 2018
BLUE BLOOD SUPERMOON (smudging above the ridge. Seen from Abbotsbury camp....2018. gouache, site material (fabric fragments and earths) on handmade indian paper.
PEAT SWIFTS
PEAT SWIFTS 2017 peat and acrylic on unstretched canvas
Swifts arriving over the lagoons and reedbeds behind the Chesil beach from the direction of Portland.
 detail of moon hanging over Studland Heath. watercolour
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Wet Wilding Moon. Made on location at Cogden carpark, Chesil. Site material, collage and acrylic on unstretched canvas. 26x30cm. August 2016.
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informal responses to moments as they come and go
informal responses to moments as they come and go
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