Earth Matters 1

Landscape artist Frances Hatch offers an insight of her experience of painting en plein air along the coastline of Dorset and Devon over one winter (2013-14). Frances works on site using materials she finds around her. This collection offers glimpses of her experience through the finished works but also informally and intimately in sketchbooks and photographs taken at the time.



'The first thing I do when I arrive in a place is to grub around for a palette. I feel and test anything that seems a potential mark-maker. I'm never happier than with clay under my finger nails.