Frances' studio is in the middle of Weymouth and is 5 minutes away from the rail station- mainline to London Waterloo. Visits welcome by appointment. All work is for sale. Contact for details.
contact E: info@franceshatch.co.uk     M: 07946903930

PRACTICE


Direct work en plein air is central to Frances' practice. She feels her way into the particularity of each site with all her senses. Frances has moved her home and her studio into Weymouth, Dorset. She is still based along the Chesil Beach but it is Portland that sits in front of her home now. She sees the sea every morning when she wakes up.  

'Place provides pigment and tools. Weather, tide and season animate, reveal and conceal. I document collect, participate, play. Materials shift hourly, daily, yearly and over millennia.
Work is generated en plein air: site materials enter and inhabit the work: each piece is particular and provisional. Cellophane sits with the Cenozoic.'
March 2019
NOW ON:  last few days... RESTLESS EARTH
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Burton Mere Under Rose
Gouache and site materials on handmade Indian paper. 30 x 57 cm (framed)

Eype Mouth Fault Corner: First Light. Eype, Dorset. March 2019. gouache and site earths on handmade indian paper. 55x89cm (detail)

Artist Talks Wednesday 16th October: 12 noon and 2pm  
Frances will expand upon the title of our show: she will explore her relationship with what she calls the ‘restless earth’. She will discuss experience, subject matter and method, there will be sketchbooks, materials, pigments on display- and Frances will read her own poetry of place. 
please email or phone the gallery to book as space is limited.
01798 215 007            email               www.kevishouse.com
NOW ON: DRAWING ON DORSET
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Exhibition:​ Drawing on Dorset - featuring work made in Dorset, of Dorset and about Dorset.
​This is a touring exhibition produced by Dorset Visual Arts and Evolver Magazine. It launched at Durlston, Swanage in July 2019, Lighthouse, Poole in September 2019. The Slade Centre, Gillingham
​​Saturday 12 October to Sunday 3 November 2019
The Slade Centre, The Square, Gillingham, SP8 4AY
​​​​T: 07775431652
E: info@sladecentre.com

​​​www.sladecentre.com
​The gallery is open Wednesday to Sunday inclusive, closed Mondays and Tuesdays.
Opening times – 10.30am to 5pm
NOW ON: BRUSHED exhibition curated by Kyra Cane
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Rowsley Derbyshire DE4 2EH
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