Alan Thornton

Alan Thornton is an artist who focuses on translating his original photography through the medium of half tone printing to create limited edition prints. Alan has been developing his approach as an image-maker, photographer and filmmaker for over 30 years and is constantly developing new ideas and approaches.
Alan’s early screen prints exposed his underlying obsession with industrial design and function, and the relationships we all have with inanimate objects.
Having worked with the medium of photography extensively for many decades, he reflected on the intimate relationship people can develop with their cameras – the feel, the textures, the details. His use of screen printing brings to life the tools of photography in his first major body of work. The attention to detail Alan brought to these ‘photographic’ prints extended to the use of metallic silver inks to add depth but also in a reference to the underlying technology of analogue photography – silver halide.