Ann Thornycroft

Ann Thornycroft (b.1944) was born and raised in the United Kingdom, and she now lives in Venice, California. She received her Bachelor degree from the Central School of Art in London and a Higher Diploma in art from the Chelsea School of Art. Her works have been featured in California Magazine, L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, Quatro Magazine, and Venice Magazine. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Thornycroft’s masterful paintings are simultaneously structured and very free, using her own capricious color choices in tandem with a very organized framework of painting rules. Thornycroft  formulated her distinctive grid patterns in New York in the 1970s, and  expanded these works in California by incorporating the rich colors of  her environs. An innovative mashup of Matisse, Mondrian, and Frankenthaler, these luscious works nod to history while being a perfect  complement to contemporary abstraction. 

Artist Website: https://www.annthornycroft.com/