The Common GroundISBN 978-1-9162971-0-4 The price includes p&p for UK when purchased from Frances. 38 pages. Full colour. 21x21cm A publication prompted by the exhibition, The Common Ground at The Crafts Study Centre, Farnham. January to May 2020. Content: written contributions by Professor Simon Olding, an essay by Frances Hatch and poem by Elisabeth Bletsoe. Contributions by Adam Buick, Akiko Hirai, Kyra Cane and Jack Doherty. Over 30 reproductions. Softcover.£10 + £2 p&p. Available at £10 from Frances' studio or from The Craft Study Centre in Farnham. |
Drawing on DorsetISBN 978-1-5272-4967-7 Published 2019 by Dorset Visual Arts in association with Evolver Media £15 from Frances' studio...postage £2 A panel, which included Professor Anita Taylor - Director of Drawing Projects UK and the founding Director of the Jerwood Drawing Prize project; Tania Kovats - Artist and Professor of Drawing at Bath Spa University; Deborah Harty - Artist and Researcher; and Tim Knowles - Artist and Curator, looked for drawing in all its possibilities. From the work submitted they selected 36 drawings made in Dorset, of Dorset and about Dorset which span the figurative and the abstract, the physical and the digital. These drawings are featured in a publication entitled ‘Drawing on Dorset’.
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CHESIL MOONSA publication celebrating The Chesil Beach in Dorset, its sea Kale, reedbeds, shingle and the moons that pass over her. Radical landscape poet Elisabeth Bletsoe and plein air painter Frances Hatch collaborate to express their response to this thin spit of shingle by exchanging images and words. Frances has shaped them into a slim and elegant volume of poetry and images. Published in June 2017 by Viriditas Press. ISBN 978-0-9562647-1-8
£12 + £1.50 p&p* 190mmx145mm saddle stitch 32pp * please enquire about postage outside the UK. |
Drawn to AntarcticaThe price includes p&p for UK.
These 79 pages trace a fascination with Antarctica which began in 2004 when Frances read Jenny Diski's Skating to Antarctica and booked her ticket for the journey south. Softcover. Signed if required. Viriditas Press. ISBN: 978-0-9562647-0-1 |
WITH RED EARTH UNDER MY NAILSI chose to use the funding by Arts Council England and Thelma Hulbert Gallery to develop a response to a poem Jeremy Hooker wrote in 2015. He took as a starting point a specific painting of mine, but his words touched into the fundamentals of my practice. WITH RED EARTH UNDER MY NAILS is the third from The Viriditas Press imprint. Jeremy's poem is included as is my response to his insights- I offer 18 reasons why I like to have earth under my nails...
*Price £16 +£1.50 ISBN 978-0-9562647-2-5 40 pages. 190x145mm. A5. * Please enquire about postage outside the UK |
RESOURCE FOR ART EDUCATORS
A free resource for art educators but it might be useful for anybody interested to find out more about my working processes. http://www.accessart.org.uk/working-landscape-france-hatch/ |
DRAWING AND PAINTING: MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS.
This very useful tome (which I am delighted to have contributed to) is now on the shelves. There are two editions which have different covers and are written in UK English and US English respectively, but in all other respects are identical. Drawing and Painting: Materials and Techniques for Contemporary Artists Kate Wilson, Thames and Hudson, UK, hardback, publication date 2 February 2015, cover price £24.95 The Artist’s Everything Handbook: a New Guide to Drawing and Painting Kate Wilson, Harper Design, USA, softback, publication date 17 February 2015, cover price $29.99 The Thames and Hudson edition is available through Waterstones The Harper Design edition is available through HarperCollins. Amazon |
MATTER ARISING- Ebook and Printed book.MATTER ARISING brings together a body of work made along the Jurassic coast, in Scotland and The Isle of Wight. They are placed alongside photographs and details of the places in which Frances works. The 40 pages brim with the immediacy of work made on site often using materials she finds on site as tools or paint media.
The e book is available from Blurb at £2.49 under 'related editions' Ebook, Apple ipad format The printed version is also available from the Blurb bookshop. Click on preview below to flick through pages without purchasing. This link also allows you to buy. |
EARTH MATTERS 1- Printed book, Ebook and PDF. |