Happy New Year from Hatfield Hines

For all those art lovers who also love fireworks, but weren't lucky enough to get to Cromer seafront's spectactular 14 minute display on New Year's Day, here's a little treat...

Spotlight on Rowland Fisher

For our first blog of the New Year, Hatfield Hines is delighted to spotlight new acquisitions by noted marine and landscape artist Rowland Fisher.

Rowland Fisher, ROI, RSMA (1885-1969) was an artist noted for his coastal and marine subjects in oils. In his earlier years he worked frequently in watercolour. He was also an accomplished painter of landscapes.

Fisher was born at Gorleston, a small town to the south of Great Yarmouth. He lived at 3 Upper Cliff Road in from where he had a superb vantage point for all the activity of the harbour.

His neighbour was Campbell Mellon, also a well known and much loved Norfolk artist.

Fisher was a founder member of the Society of Marine Artists in 1939, and showed there from their first exhibition in 1946 (delayed by reason of the War) until his death in 1969.

He also exhibited at the Royal Academy and with the prestigious Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI) of which he was a full member.

Fisher also worked extensively in Cornwall, and became a member of the St. Ives Society of Artists alongside fellow Cornwall contemporaries Stanhope Forbes, Sir John Arnesby Brown, Sir Alfred Munnings, Sir Stanley Spencer, Sir Frank Brangwyn, Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson.