Frances Hatch

About

Curriculum vitae

Trained at Aberystwyth, the Ecole des Beaux Arts at Nantes, Goldsmiths’ College and Wimbledon College of Art. Elected to the Royal Watercolour Society in 2022.

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Training

  • C.C.A.T. (Cambridge) — Foundation Course 1973–74
  • Aberystwyth University College of Wales — Hons degree in French and Visual Art 1974–78
  • Auditrice Libre, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Nantes 1976
  • Goldsmiths’ College, A.T.C. 1978–79
  • Wimbledon College of Art — MA Printmaking 1986–89

Selected exhibitions

  • Royal Watercolour Society / Bankside Gallery — elected 2022 2020–
  • The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, The Mall Galleries 2016–22, 2025
  • Royal Society of British Artists Open, The Mall Galleries, London 2022
  • Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2016, 2019
  • Kevis House Gallery, Petworth — solo and group shows 2014–
  • The Russell Gallery, London 2020–
  • Sladers Yard, West Bay, Dorset 2015–
  • The Common Ground, Crafts Study Centre, U.C.A. Farnham 2020
  • Bermondsey Project Space, London 2019, 2021
  • Drawing on Dorset — Fine Foundation Gallery Durlston, Lighthouse Poole, Dorset County Hospital, The Sherborne 2019–24
  • Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton — solo show 2017; winner, THG Open 2025 2017, 2025
  • The Atkinson Gallery, Milfield Open 2021
  • Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, Mall Galleries, London 2014, 2016
  • The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, The Mall Galleries 2013, 2015, 2016
  • The Gatehouse Gallery, St Peter Port, Guernsey — solo show 2016
  • RWS Galleries, Whitcomb St — ‘Now’ 2023, ‘Small Works’ 2024 2023, 2024
  • Brantwood, Coniston Water — solo show, March–July 2024
  • RWS Galleries, Whitcomb St, London — Common Ground Oct 2024
  • Russell Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth — Artists in Purbeck: Spirit of Place Oct 2024 – Mar 2025
  • White Chalk Gallery, Devizes, Wiltshire Aug–Sep 2025
  • Dorset Open — winner of the People’s Choice Award Oct–Nov 2025
  • Meeting the Wind, Kevis House Gallery, Petworth Oct 2025

Awards

  • Visiting Artist, Gate House Gallery, Guernsey Mar 2016
  • The Shenzhen International Watercolour Biennial Prize at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) 2016
  • The Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton Open — winner 2016
  • Bursary awarded by the Department for International Trade South West 2018
  • ARTmine, Agora Gallery, Chelsea, New York, USA 2019
  • Abbotsbury Landscape Artist of the Year 2023
  • Dorset Open — winner of the People’s Choice Award 2025

Residencies

  • Pavilion Dance, Bournemouth 2011, 2012
  • Durlston Country Park National Nature Reserve, Swanage 2014
  • Soil Culture Residency at The Eden Project — shortlist Aug 2014
  • Brantwood Residency, Coniston Water, Cumbria Sep–Oct 2019

Publications

  • Drawn to Antarctica: an artist’s view. Viriditas Press. ISBN 978-0-9562647-0-1 2005
  • Earth, with Sladers Yard 2014–15
  • Chesil Moons. Viriditas Press. ISBN 978-0-9562647-1-8 2017
  • With Red Earth Under My Nails. Viriditas Press. ISBN 978-0-9562647-2-5 2017
  • The Common Ground. The Crafts Study Centre. ISBN 978-1-9162971-0-4 2020

Contributions to publications

  • Missal Birds: origami microbook printed by Steve Hitchens, poems by Elisabeth Bletsoe
  • Bruaria: microbook printed by Steve Hitchens, poems by Elisabeth Bletsoe
  • Towards Re-Enchantment: Place and Its Meanings. Artevents (at the invitation of Elisabeth Bletsoe, poet) 2010
  • Artist and Illustrators Magazine — featured contributor, January issue 2014
  • 40 Artist Educator Project, commissioned by AccessArt 2014
  • Drawing and Painting: Materials and Techniques for Contemporary Artists. Thames and Hudson 2015
  • The Jackdaw Magazine, Easel Notes, May/June issue 2016
  • Drawing on Dorset. Dorset Visual Arts. ISBN 978-1-5262-0790-6 2019