Contact
Contact Frank:
Yew Tree Cottage
Chapel Lane
East Boldre
Brockenhurst
Hants
SO42 7WP
Tel: 01590 612091
E-Mail: Click Here
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About Frank
Frank Callaghan lives in the village of East Boldre, in the New Forest where he has his studio. He spent over forty years working in education and taught Art and Design in schools in Liverpool, Kettering, Exeter, Winchester and The Waterside, which is on the outer fringes of Southampton. Of his forty years in teaching, twenty one of them were as a Headteacher/Principal. Having spent much of his working life teaching art he now practices as full time painter.
Frank Callaghan was educated at The Hewett Grammar School, in Norwich, and then trained as a teacher of Art and Design in Liverpool. Later he studied at Exeter University, and then undertook post graduate study at The University of Southampton. He is a lifetime Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, having been elected as a Life Fellow in 1995.
His fascination for landscape was borne out of his upbringing in Norfolk where he developed his affinity for large skies and broad views and of course in particular for for seascapes and river scenes, these having been influenced by his life by the sea and on the Norfolk Broads. Later he developed his work in figure which he continues to study and work at, a genre that continuously proposes new and difficult challenges.
 Frank for many years painted in watercolour with the addition of fine pen work to enhance his paintings, and in this was much influenced by the work of his old art teacher at Grammar School, the well known Norfolk water-colourist, Lesley Moore, whose work Frank cherishes. In recent years he has preferred to paint in oils, or in acrylic. Frank enjoys oils because of the freedom they offer him to experiment and express feelings, but he also enjoys acrylics as a medium because he finds their immediacy challenging, applying it as he does, in a technique similar to that used in his oil painting, where he tries to develop a free and open style of painting.
He particularly admires the work of Seago, and also that of the current painter Longueville; however he is aware that recently his style has become more ‘photographic’ in its interpretation. This has not been something he has particularly sought, but it has been a natural development in his studio work. Frank is now deliberately extending his style into a slightly more abstract interpretation, which may be seen by observing his most recent compositions in oil.
Currently he paints in what is approximately an A3 format; however he is beginning to develop this into larger works.
His works have sold as far afield as Russia, Sweden and Spain. He mostly sells his work at The Coastal Gallery, Lymington. He has often exhibited, and recently has exhibited at Highcliffe Castle, Dorset, and in Warwickshire. He has had paintings selected for exhibition in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. These paintings are marked appropriately on the web pages.
Paintings may also be purchased via his website (www.frankcallaghanart.co.uk), and descriptions of each work are attached to the work displayed on the pages of this web site.
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