Ann Thornycroft
Biography
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.
Ann 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.
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