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

​  SPRING 2019
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FORELAND AND YARD. ALONG THE LOW TIDE LINE BETWEEN OLD HARRY AND SOUTH BEACH. STUDLAND, DORSET. foraged beach materials on handmade indian paper. lhs of diptych.143 x 36cm. 29.01.2018 - 17.02.2019.
above:  Durdle Door. Earth drawing.
ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PAINTERS IN WATERCOLOURS 207th Exhibition. 3rd- 19th April.
Please print the invitation below if you wish to attend the Private View on Tuesday 2nd. I have 4 pieces in this show including the two images below. 
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Above: COBALT MOLEHILL MOON. gouache and earths on paper. 2018
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HENGISTBURY MOON. gouache and site materials on handmade paper
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