Beverley Thornley
Website: www.beverleythornley.com
Instagram: @beverleythornley
Email: beverley635@btinternet.com
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Collecting earthy materials from the land and using them to depict places, journeys and environmental issues forms the bedrock of my artistic practice. Such ordinary stuff is ubiquitous but unique to the place where it is found. My role is to collaborate with these found geological materials and motifs to encourage them to express their character and something about their origins. At a political and philosophical level, I am inspired by the idea that inanimate matter has unacknowledged agency. Working with various media - drawings, paintings, land-art, prints and installation – my aim is to engage the viewer’s curiosity in the variety and vibrancy of natural earth-derived pigments and their potential to convey a sense of land and place. I want to provoke an interest in and connection to the stuff beneath our feet and in our everyday, changing, local environment. I work from a studio at the Rye Creative Centre and exhibit in Sussex, Kent and London. |
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