Welcome to Francis Katz Artworks

Welcome to my newly redesigned website. I can now update and expand it myself, so please do come back regularly to see what is new.

I am an artist who lives in Primrose Hill. I am passionate about the area, and have been painting, exhibiting and selling paintings of local scenes since 1994.

I have studied at The City Lit and The Hampstead School of Art. My paintings have been exhibited and sold in selected galleries and local venues over the years, but I now prefer selling direct locally and through this website - meeting and talking to you, and getting your feedback on my work. I sometimes set up a stall (for which I have a trading licence) in the village by the side of Nicholas on sunny weekend days. You can email or phone me in advance to check if I will be there when you are thinking of coming, and you can always view my available artworks at other times by arrangement with me.

You will also now see me driving around Primrose Hill in The Art Van - my new mobile gallery. See below!

You may know me best for my watercolours and photographic collages of local landscapes and village scenes. I also paint in oils, and in all three media cover other landscapes and seascapes extensively on my sailing travels - often using watercolours done in the field (or on the sea!) and working them up to oils back in my studio. You will now see here my work of Southern France, Corsica and beyond alongside my Primrose Hill artworks, and I hope you will find it interesting to see the two side by side. You will also now find here (in the News and Amuse section) links to my sailing travelogues (and a short childrens book 'The Adventures of Wild Will from Primrose Hill'), so I hope this will give you a more complete view of my art and the things that inspire me.

The News and Amuse section will be expanded to contain details of upcoming events that may be of interest, and I (when I find time!) to include an eclectic mix of changing items to inform and amuse you.

See the new pages just added with limited edition reproductions on canvas of some of my oil paintings, and panoramic Photocanvases of Primrose Hill, the Village and the Rose Garden.

There is plenty here that would make a perfect Christmas gift for Primrose Hillites!

I have recently started exploring the same subject matter in different media. You will see examples of this in similar landscapes, treated differently as Photographic Collage and Photocanvas, and in my latest oil painting 'Midsummer Clouds' which plays on the photographic collage 'Flying over the London Eye' and the Photocanvas 'Skyline from Primrose Hill 2'. I am currently working on a new oil painting of the colourful part of the Village represented in 'View from Anne's Balcony' and 'Village Life'.  

The Gallery section has just been added, and I will be developing it over the next couple of months to include galleries of my early work and works in progress.To receive an email  to tell you when new material is added, please do suscribe for updates in the box to the right. For all subscriptions before Christmas I will send you 3 free greetings cards of your choice (which can include the Christmas card). After you subscribe, send me an email on the Contact page telling me which cards you would like and the address to which they should be sent.

I am always happy to receive comments, suggestions and feedback, so please do let me know what you think by sending me a message through the link on the Contact page. 

I hope you enjoy exploring my little world, and will be a regular visitor.

Francis Katz

December 2009