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.

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 few 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.

A lot has been happening in my art world in the last few months, as a result of which I have been busy painting and photographing and have had little time to update my website with my newest artworks. So if you like what you see and would like to see my latest work please do contact me for details of what is currently available.

I will as usual have a colourful stall at the PHCA Summer Fair in Chalcot Square next Saturday 12 June from 2 to 5 pm, so do come along and say hello. It is always a busy day, so if you want a preview I will be set up by about Midday. New work on show will include:

'From Anne's Terrace' - an oil painting of the Village.

'Pink Blossom' - a Photographic Collage of the cherry blossom in the road leading up to Queen Mary's Gate in Regents Park. The blossom was only in bloom for 5 days, so this work captures a real moment in time. I have been waiting for the right conditions to shoot this for the last 5 years!

Photosketches of various shops, pubs and restaurants in Primrose Hill. This is a new medium I have 'invented'. I take night time photographs which illuminate the buildings from inside, play with the colours, saturation, hue, exposure and other levels and settings to bring out the quirky and funky character of Primrose Hill. They are then printed in small limited editions on archival matte paper and hand drawn by me in pen individually on each work - so each one is unique.

Francis Katz

June 2010