Stuart THORN
Listed by the Lander Gallery, Truro, as a regular exhibitor in 2011.
Born in Bude and apart from student days in London, Thorn has lived all his life on the north coast of Cornwall. He was fortunate to study Fine Art at Redruth and Falmouth Schools of Art at a period of great international significance, with lectures from artists from the St Ives School including Terry FROST and Denis MITCHELL. Although he went on to become a successful graphic designer, their influence and inspiration fuelled a life-long love of painting.
'My landscapes are an interpretation of the elements I observe. Sketches and paintings are executed in the studio from memory and brief on-the-spot notations. In this sense they are 'abstract'-not direct renditions of the subject. I absorb impressions and note down the colours, shapes and overall effects. In the paintings that evolve in the studio I am concerned to capture the essential character, rhythm and formal relationship of landscape and not accurate detail.'
http://www.stisa.co.uk/artist-gallery/stuart-thorn/
media
Graphic designer and painter
works and access
exhibitions
2015: Crypt Gallery, STISA (23-29 May)
memberships
STISA
misc further info
references
Exhibition notes (2011) Summer exhibition, Lander Gallery, Truro