Coming Home: Paintings by Richard Thorn

Torre Abbey welcomes Richard Thorn back to the town of his birth and is delighted to show a new set of seascape and landscape watercolours of the coastline of Torbay and South Devon.

“The sea has been a prominent feature of my work since I began painting. The coast was a stones throw from my home and as a boy, would spend many hours on the beach and walking along the cliffs. These early experiences would prove invaluable for my later work. Torbay is a particularly beautiful bay with many hidden beaches, coves and harbour, providing a wealth of subject matter.”

The exhibition also includes a number of Thorn’s sketch-books, showing both drawings and pencil & wash paintings, made ‘in-situ’. These books provide great examples of Thorn’s working process and show both his spontaneity and passion for the landscape as his subject-matter.

For more information visit http://www.torre-abbey.org.uk/events/details/103/coming-home-richard-thorn-exhibition