This site shows paintings by Frances Borden, a British artist and STAT-certified Alexander technique teacher, working in the South West of England.

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Caroline Chalk #3, 12.7 x 17.7 cm, Oil on board

This portrait will be in the Bath Society of Artists 119th Annual Open Exhibition at the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath from Sunday 13th October 2024.

It was first exhibited in 2021 at Wells Art Contemporary in Wells Cathedral and has been revised.

Title: Caroline Chalk #3
Size: 12.7 x 17.7 cm
Medium: Oil on board

The show runs until Saturday 11th January 2025.

Catalogue
2017 – 2024

In 2018, I started training to teach the Alexander technique. I began a series of portraits of fellow trainees and teachers.

2011 – 2017
1998 – 2014
1994 – 1998

I wanted to make big work at Chelsea College of Art & Design, but couldn’t afford materials or transportation costs.

Because painting felt vulnerable and dangerous like giving birth, I had to leave the communal studio and work at home. After many false starts, I began this series of self-portraits.

1987 – 1994

I began painting when I was 16. It seemed like a way to make things happen.

I got a place on a Foundation Course at 18, but left after a day. I had shingles, therapy, got a job, passed my driving test, wrote extensively and joined another Course when I was 21, by which time I felt aged, but ready to go.

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Prints

6 Blank Greetings Cards

£16

This is a detail from Map (25.4 x 30.4 cm, Oil on board), which was in the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize of 2017.

Card dimensions: 10.4 x 14.7 cm.
Price includes postage in the U.K

Print on Hahnemühle Paper

£85

This print was produced by the National Portrait Gallery in 2019 to mark 30 years of the BP Portrait Award. The original work (Water, 25.4 x 30.4 cm, Oil on board) was in the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize of 2019.

Print Dimensions: 42.8 x 58.9 cm
Signed, dated and sent in a strong tube.
Price includes postage in the U.K

Print on Hahnemühle Paper

£85

This print was produced by the National Portrait Gallery in 2019 to mark 30 years of the BP Portrait Award. The original work (R, 12.7 x 17.8 cm, Oil on paper) was in the Royal Academy Summer Show of 2019.

Print Dimensions: 42.8 x 58.9 cm
Signed, dated and sent in a strong tube.
Price includes postage in the U.K

Originals

LMF #3

£2400

This painting was in the BP Portrait Award Exhibition of 2016 at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Title: LMF #3
Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.4 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas board

Price includes postage in the U.K