HATTIE studied Fine Art at the Slade School of Art graduating at the end of the eighties. Whilst at the Slade her tutors included: Stuart Brisley, Phyllida Barlow, and Lucien Freud.

She is also a contemporary of Rachel Whiteread, Martin Creed, Michelle Baharier, and the film maker and artist Andrew Kötting.

She continued to paint whilst concentrating on her other great passion: writing, gaining international and national awards as a playwright. She also continued to work with fellow artists such as Andrew Kötting who adapted her Tinniswood award winning, and Olivier nominated play Ivan and the Dogs into the film LEK AND THE DOGS 2017 and more recently DISEASED AND DISORDELY with Eden and Andrew Kötting 2020, both films received international acclaim and were accepted into numerous international film festivals including the London Film Festival before going on general release on MUBI.

She is a recipient of the Writers Guild New Play Commissioning Scheme in which she again returns to visual art in her exploration of the foundations of the Outsider Art Movement and the Prinzhorn Collection.

“I want to create paintings that you can sink into, that you can lie inside. I also want them to be what the viewer imagines, so just like a good theatre play – you – the viewer have the space to imagine what the painting means to you. Blues and green suggest sea, and also suggest the magical  – something underneath, only half seen, and half understood, the sea being a universal allegory of unseen worlds and depth. The pictures I hope suggest a secret private place – that is behind what you are observing and of the viewers own creation.”  Hattie