School of Art

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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

Valerie Thornton

Born: 1931, UK, England, London   Died: 1991

Painter and printmaker. Studied at Byam Shaw School of Art, Regent St. Polytechnic and Stanley Hayter's 'Atelier 17' studio in Paris during the 1950s. She exhibited through the Zwemmer Gallery, London during the 1960s, the New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham during the 1980s and saw her final solo show at the Albermarle, London in 1990. She was a founder member of the Printmakers' Council and a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Painters-Etchers and of the Printmaking Faculty at the British School at Rome. Collections of her work are held at the Ashmoleon Museum, Ipswich Museum and a small collection at the Tate Gallery. She produced oils paintings and etchings based on architecture, Italian frescoes and English landscapes

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

Capitals, Serrabone PR943 Prints

Church Interior PR3414 Prints

St Gilles Carvings PR926 Prints




 
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