Frances Daunt is a self-taught animal artist living in Derbyshire
Frances Daunt is an award-winning animal artist living in Derbyshire. As an animal lover she is fascinated in the ‘soul’ or character of animals and this shines through in her work.
Frances keeps her work fresh by working in a variety of media. She mainly works in oils or acrylics but also loves pastels and coloured pencils, creating artwork which is held in private collections world-wide.
She finds that by using different media she is continually challenging herself and learning something new which helps keep her work fresh and interesting.
Frances is also well known for her ever popular and rather unique map art. These are mixed media pictures painted directly on to vintage maps and then dry mounted and framed.
Her newest body of work features underwater scenes in acrylics mostly on large canvases. The animals featured range from turtles to polar bears.
If you would like to follow Frances’ work please take a look at her website www.francesdaunt.com or follow her as
@FrancesDauntAnimalArtist on Facebook or Instagram.
The shows I am doing this year (so far) are:
Solo exhibition at Aqueduct Cottage, Cromford Canal – 27th/28th April
Belper Arts Trail (at Ada Belfield Centre) 5th/6th May
Arts at The Folly (The Folly, Main Road, Lea DE4 5GJ) – 17th/18th/19th May
TWASI exhibition at Nature in Art, Gloucestershire – 24th May – 2nd June
Derbyshire Open Arts (at Holymoorside) – 25th/26th/27th May
Artist and Designer Fair, Buxton – 29th/30th June
Solo exhibition at Aqueduct Cottage, Cromford Canal – 10th-14th July
Art in the Gardens, Sheffield – 6th-8th Spetember
BDWCA Festival of Bird Art, Bakewell – 14th/15th September
Artstand exhibition, Crich – 25th/26th October
CAFDGG – 15th-17th November