Frances Hatch
On the ledges — Reading the ground before any work begins.
The rucksack, unpacked — A surface, two brushes, primary colours, white, and a binding medium.
Above the sea — Hanging around with no outcome in mind.
Straight into the book — Site earths, worked wet across the page.
In the thicket — Weather is neither good nor bad. It simply is.
Place palettes — Twenty years of gathering, hung as one wall.

On the ledges

Reading the ground before any work begins.

Photograph — Richard Gregory

The rucksack, unpacked

A surface, two brushes, primary colours, white, and a binding medium.

Photograph — Richard Gregory

Above the sea

Hanging around with no outcome in mind.

Straight into the book

Site earths, worked wet across the page.

In the thicket

Weather is neither good nor bad. It simply is.

Photograph — Tom Hanmer

Place palettes

Twenty years of gathering, hung as one wall.

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Where to see the work

Everything that's on

No exhibition is open at this moment. Work is with these three galleries year round, and the studio selection is always current.

The practice

‘There is magic underfoot’

Work is made on the ground. Rucksack essentials consist of a surface to paint on, a couple of brushes, primary colours, a tube of white and a binding medium.

‘Hanging around’ in the landscape with no outcome in mind is an intentional stance. Something always occurs: the light changes, the tide turns, a particular rock formation crops up, an atmosphere shifts. Then, the work begins.

More about the work
Frances Hatch sitting on the floor of her studio beside a work in progress.
In the studio — photograph, Tom Hanmer
Storm Pilings, Charmouth — a wide painting in cliff earths and acrylic, the shore running the full width.
Storm Pilings, Charmouth — site earths and acrylic on handmade paper, 82 × 197cm

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