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E: info@franceshatch.co.uk M: 07946903930
E: info@franceshatch.co.uk M: 07946903930
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MY PRACTICE
Direct work in the landscape is central to my practice.
Environments within which I have recently worked in include Guernsey, Norfolk, Norway, Devon, The Isle of Purbeck along The Jurassic Coast and the North West Highlands of Scotland. Antarctica holds enduring significance.
Each site suggests and often offers its own palette and demands something particular of me… at times I integrate colour (gouache, acrylic or watercolour) with what is available in the landscape and at others the found material offers all.
When grubbing around for tools and pigments in each environment, I make discoveries about a place that I might otherwise miss. If I return, even a day later, a different set of possibilities arise because I’m different and I’m encountering matter, water, light and air that continually fluctuate.
Environments within which I have recently worked in include Guernsey, Norfolk, Norway, Devon, The Isle of Purbeck along The Jurassic Coast and the North West Highlands of Scotland. Antarctica holds enduring significance.
Each site suggests and often offers its own palette and demands something particular of me… at times I integrate colour (gouache, acrylic or watercolour) with what is available in the landscape and at others the found material offers all.
When grubbing around for tools and pigments in each environment, I make discoveries about a place that I might otherwise miss. If I return, even a day later, a different set of possibilities arise because I’m different and I’m encountering matter, water, light and air that continually fluctuate.
STUDIO SPRING NEWS - Full May Moon and Swifts return over the Chesil.
FIERCE FIRST LIGHT. WEST BEXINGTON, CHESIL, DORSET. Site material and acrylic on handmade paper. 88x52cm
(SWA, The Mall Galleries)
CALYX MOON, WEST BEXINGTON. acrylic and site material on unstretched canvas.
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caught sight of a group of 4 or more coming in low over the shingle. watercolour with local earths. 11am. 04.05.17
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COMING UP
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156th Annual Exhibition of THE SOCIETY OF WOMEN ARTISTS.
Monday 3 July – Sunday 9 July Mall Galleries, London. |
24 June- Sept 2017
SLADERS YARD West Bay Road, Bridport, Dorset DT6 4EL contact: 01308 459511 gallery@sladersyard.co.uk for invitations and information. |
12 July- 29 July.
IMPROMPTU. KEVIS HOUSE GALLERY Petworth Festival. Contact for invitation and details: Saturday 15 July: artist talk. 29 July: Frances will be in the gallery. Kevis House, Lombard Street, Petworth West Sussex, GU28 0AG 01798 215 007 |
9 Sept- 28 October.
THELMA HULBERT GALLERY, Honiton. Solo Show. 9 Sept- 28 October. Open Tuesday - Saturday 10am-5pm 01404 45006 info@thelmahulbert.com 01404 45006 |
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RECENT SHOWS
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ROYAL ACADEMY SUMMER SHOW
The works were in Gallery 1V curated by Jock McFayden RA who ‘set out to turn Gallery 1V into a radical landscape, showing us the wide variety of ways in which artists continue to be inspired by their physical surroundings’. It felt good to have work in this context. |
Award: SHENZHEN INTERNATIONAL WATERCOLOUR BIENNIAL PRIZE at this year's Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) exhibition at The Mall galleries:
'An award to encourage innovation and experimentation in contemporary watermedia.' |
THE THELMA HULBERT GALLERY OPEN 2016 (WINNER)
I'm looking forward to a SOLO SHOW and RESIDENCY Sept- October 2017 |
DISCERNING EYE EXHIBITION Nov 2016
Mall Galleries, London |
WORKS ON PAPER FAIR 2017 represented by Kevis House Gallery.
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