Valerie Thornton - December 2015

Valer ie T ho rn T o n

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northleach, £850 etching & aquatint, 1972, ed 70, signed, 40 x 61.5 cm

Sangüesa, Spain, £650 etching, 1982, ed 60, signed, 65 x 42 cm

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The loire at Vendôme, £650 etching & aquatint, 1986, ed 150, signed, 23.5 x 36 cm

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Corme-royal, £850 Prices include frame, vat and uk delivery

etching, 1974, ed 75, signed, 52 x 44 cm

etruscan reunion, £550 etching & aquatint, 1988, ed 90, signed, 22 x 37 cm

Untitled Facade, £550 etching & aquatint, ed 50, signed, 40 x 52 cm

Pots, £750

The Guildhall, lavenham, £750

etching & aquatint, artist’s proof, signed, 52 x 40 cm

etching & aquatint, 1977, ed 250, signed, 34 x 47.5 cm

Barfreston, £700 etching & aquatint, 1979, ed 75, signed, 39.5 x 62 cm

aachen, £650 etching & aquatint, 1982, ed 70, signed, 37 x 22 cm

The Tower of london, £950 etching & aquatint, 1979, ed 90, signed, 37 x 58 cm

lincoln, arcading, £650 etching & aquatint, 1981, ed 60, signed, 35.5 x 23 cm

San Martin, £425

Capitals, elne, £495

etching & aquatint, 1978,

aquatint, 1980, ed 70, signed, 22 x 13.5 cm

ed 150, signed, 18 x 11.5 cm

St ethelbert's Gate, norwich, £650 etching & aquatint, 1987, artist’s proof, signed, 41 x 29 cm

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Valerie ThornTon

Valerie Thornton was born in London where she studied art at the Regent Street Polytechnic School of Art. During that period, 1950-53, she visited a photographic exhibition in Charing Cross showing old church buildings and almost immediately knew that she had discovered a consuming passion and subject for her art or, as she later succinctly stated, buildings have been my language. Thornton subsequently developed into one of Britain’s finest post-war etchers, particularly in her depictions of architectural subjects and Sir John Rothenstein later said, .. . in her hands, the etched plate has an almost sculpted presence.

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As a student, Thornton also saw Stanley William Hayter’s film about the avantgarde etching being done at his Atelier 17 workshop in Paris and in 1954 she went to study printmaking with him. The same year she also acquired her first etching press and this medium remained her favoured method of printmaking. In 1955 Thornton spent time studying and drawing in Italy and thereafter made many trips to work in Europe.

Valerie Thornton exhibited regularly in London and the provinces and also in America where she lived and worked on two occasions. During the 1970s she made many etchings of East Anglian churches which demonstrated her particular concern with the textures of building materials, such as stone, flint or brick, and the way in which they have weathered over many centuries.

She became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers in 1966 and was a founder member of the Printmakers’ Council. Her work is highly regarded, being found in many public collections including, in this country, the British Museum, the Tate Gallery, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and abroad at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Boston Museum of Fine Art and the Biblioteque Nationale, Paris.

original Drawing for an etching, St Benoit sur loire, £1200 charcoal & pastel, 51 x 34 cm

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