Frances Hatch
Portland, Dorset
Direct work en plein air is central to my site-responsive practice. Each work is a container of experience integrated with water-based media.
MessageBorn in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, I currently live in Weymouth, Dorset. Both studio and home are a short walk from the Jurassic Coast.
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: Postgraduate- MA Printmaking 1986-89
Statement
A lover of landscape, of weather, of season, of moon rise and twilight: I make site-responsive work. I do this by integrating site materials with water-based media…carrying as little as possible in terms of materials and tools into the landscape, relying on what is already in place. I've always been in conversation with the landscapes I've had the privilege to experience- as the years continue I am more and more aware that this relationship is truly reciprocal.
‘Geology becomes my pigment. Sun, moon, tide and season animate, reveal and conceal. I witness matter on the move: particular, provisional: permanent impermanence’.