Watercolour Artist Elaine Reed | Hampshire, UK

Elaine's paintings are showing now at Stubbington Library, Hampshire PO14 2PP, for the whole of November 2025. She is exhibiting with friends, Sara Pitkeathly, Jenny Thorpe and Gilli Gregory. Open Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays 9.30am-5.00pm; Saturdays 9.30am-1.00pm.

Elaine Reed lives in Hill Head, Hampshire, UK.

Elaine specialises in painting and teaching watercolours.

Recent work has included a lot more of the kinds of mixed media that work with watercolour paints. She also frequently works with print media, inks, gouache, pastels and pencils. She is intensely interested in Geology, plant forms, Astronomy, Folklore, Myth and, always, the sea.

Elaine trained as an Illustrator and Graphic Designer at Southampton Faculty of Art & Design. She then went on to do a year of Fine Art at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Le Havre.

Her leaning towards Illustration and a subsequent workplace ethic of working to deadlines has led to her painting very many commissioned pieces. Working within a time frame and with specific instructions is not a problem. (See Commissions page for a few examples and the stories behind the work.)

She teaches and runs workshops and demonstrations for many local art groups.

Elaine's work can be seen at her home and in various local shows but most especially during the annual Hampshire Open Studios event each August.