FRANCES HATCH RWS
Plein air painter - lives by the sea - studio on thr Isle of Portland in Dorset - member of the Royal Watercolour Society
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February Studio News: Mailchimp
February Studio News: Mailchimp
Celebrating 25th Anniversary of World Heritage Status for our Jurassic Coast. What a privilege to make work along The Jurassic Coast with its globally valuable geology, and coastal geomorphology extending between Orcombe Point in Devon to Old Harry Rocks in Dorset. I’m preparing for a solo show starting on 18 April (World Heritage Day) in Bridport Arts Centre.
February Studio News: Substack
February Studio News: Substack
Globally valuable geology, and coastal geomorphology extends between Orcombe Point in Devon to Old Harry Rocks in Dorset.
SPRING STUDIO COLLECTION
SPRING STUDIO COLLECTION 2026 | Artwork Archive
SPRING STUDIO COLLECTION 2026 | Artwork Archive
A private room from Frances Hatch
SENSING PLACE - Bridport Arts Centre April- June 2026
SENSING PLACE: solo show at Bridport Arts 18 April- 6 June 2026. Artist talk and workshops now live for booking
SENSING PLACE: solo show at Bridport Arts 18 April- 6 June 2026. Artist talk and workshops now live for booking
An exhibition of ‘place palettes’, sketchbooks and paintings made along the Jurassic coastline over the last 20 years. Sensing Place focuses on Frances Hatch’s process as a plein air painter and the ‘place palettes’ she makes at Dorset coastal locations using found earths, clays, organic matter and man-made materials like litter. Accompanied by written and... Read more »
SENSING PLACE. Artist's Talk - Bridport Arts. Sat 18 April. bookings live. limited places
SENSING PLACE. Artist's Talk - Bridport Arts. Sat 18 April. bookings live. limited places
Join artist Frances Hatch in the Allsop Gallery for a tour of her exhibition, Sensing Place. The exhibition highlights ‘place palettes’, sketchbooks and paintings made along the Jurassic coastline over the last 20 years. Frances will discuss her work and share her process as a plein air painter. Sensing Place is open from 18 April... Read more »
SENSING PLACE: Thurs 30 April: Drawing With West Bay - workshop led by Frances Hatch - 30 April - bookings live. limited places
SENSING PLACE: Thurs 30 April: Drawing With West Bay - workshop led by Frances Hatch - 30 April - bookings live. limited places
Join artist Frances Hatch in West Bay on a guided drawing walk, recording the sights, sounds and materials of the Jurassic coast. 11am: meet promptly outside The West Bay Hotel, 3 Station Rd, West Bay, Bridport DT6 4EW. 11am-2pm: participants will be guided on a slow, mindful wander (no longer than a half a mile... Read more »
SENSING PLACE: Wed 20 May: Painting the Weather in West Bay - workshop led by Frances Hatch - 10 June. bookings live. limited places
SENSING PLACE: Wed 20 May: Painting the Weather in West Bay - workshop led by Frances Hatch - 10 June. bookings live. limited places
Participants will create small scale paintings of the light, atmosphere and weather in West Bay with an option to include found materials. 11am: Meet outside Windy Corner Café, Quayside, West Bay, DT6 4GZ. 11am-2pm: A very short walk to a nearby place identified by Frances as suitable on the day. The group will settle on... Read more »
ARTIST WEBSITE Frances Hatch RWS
ARTIST WEBSITE Frances Hatch RWS
Frances Hatch Artist. Site-responsive. Relatedness and reciprocity with Land. Pleinair works that are containers of shared experience of Place.
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ONLINE COURSE: Mixed media painting – making connections with your environment. West Dean College
ONLINE COURSE: Mixed media painting – making connections with your environment. West Dean College
Tutor Frances Hatch shares the strategies she employs to engage with a place through its materials and involving all of our senses. You are offered ways of being in a place, whether rural, urban or the home you live in, and how to use materials found in these different environments to create original artwork. You are encouraged to adopt a stance of curiosity about your current practice and, through insight gained over the course, revitalise, energise, and go forward with purpose.
THE ROYAL WATERCOLOUR SOCIETY
WORKS AVAILABLE via THE BANKSIDE GALLERY
WORKS AVAILABLE via THE BANKSIDE GALLERY
High quality, affordable, original artwork, available to buy online from a diverse group of over 200 artists. Bankside Gallery is the home of the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers
ROYAL WATERCOLOUR SOCIETY website & online shop
ROYAL WATERCOLOUR SOCIETY website & online shop
Works by Frances Hatch: April Sunrise, Sandsfoot. , Buoyant Harbour Moon , Doghouse Hill Shadow, Eype Mouth, Dorset. , Fleet Moon Harvest. Chesil Beach , Great Tree and Castle Dawn, Sandsfoot Castle, Castle Cove, Portland Harbour. , Limestone Pavement Under the Rainbow, above Malham Cove. October 2019 , Malemdale, just...
ONLINE via The BANKSIDE GALLERY website.
ONLINE via The BANKSIDE GALLERY website.
High quality, affordable, original artwork, available to buy online from a diverse group of over 200 artists. Bankside Gallery is the home of the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. Our online store is the simplest way to buy art online.
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the number nine bus home- birthday pilgrimage words and images
the number nine bus home- birthday pilgrimage words and images
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GIRAFFE STORY video snippet from Artist Talk February 2025. Sladers Yard Gallery, Dorset
GIRAFFE STORY video snippet from Artist Talk February 2025. Sladers Yard Gallery, Dorset
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YouTube Channel: Frances Hatch Artist
YouTube Channel: Frances Hatch Artist
'I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. Under the trees, along the pale slopes of sand, I walk in an ascendant relationship to rapture, and with words I celebrate this rapture. I see, and I dote upon, the manifest.' from Winter Hours by Mary Oliver Frances maintains a spacious, reflective practice...through which she welcomes reciprocity with land as community. Her work is site-responsive, integrating site materials with water-based media through which personality of place participates. Each site suggests and indeed offers its own palette and demands something particular of her. She integrates colour (gouache, acrylic or watercolour) with what is available in the landscape. She lingers, gathers and concocts. Weather, water and happenstance animate, reveal and conceal, pre-vent and pro-vide. Site materials enter and inhabit the work both by chance and by design. films by @richardgregoryartist
5 MINUTE ARTIST TALK. RWS GALLERY WHITCOMB STREET OCTOBER 2924
5 MINUTE ARTIST TALK. RWS GALLERY WHITCOMB STREET OCTOBER 2924
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Vimeo- insights into practice
Vimeo- insights into practice
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