Putney Sculpture Trail

Putney Sculpture Trail

A permanent installation of nine large sculptures along the River Thames at Putney, South London. A beautiful 1.5 mile riverside walk including parkland and piazzas replete with cafes and restaurants.

Artist’s Statement

My sculptures are concerned with the ordinary but diverse human predicament and stand, I hope, as a reminder of our shared humanity. They are improvised rather than pre-conceived and are built with randomly pre-formed non-representational shapes made in firmed-up...

Clare Carswell’s Article

Traces of an Artist’s Journey: An appraisal of Thornhill’s work

Alan Thornhill describes his sculpture as expressive rather than cerebral. Its images stem from his unconscious and his experience of materials rather than from concept or theory. This does not mean that he is not a thinking man or that a great deal of thought has not gone into the making of his sculptures. It means that he wants us, the viewer, to look at and experience his work directly, without necessarily resorting to the lens of art history or art criticism to do so.

Sculptures, Drawings and Paintings

Sculptures, Drawings and Paintings

A personal exploration of the creative process at The Museum in the Park, Stratford Park, Stroud, Glos GL5 4AF. www.museuminthepark.org.uk. Exhibition – Saturday 9th June to Monday 27th August 2012.

Portrait Heads in Public Collections

The following portrait heads are in public collections:-

  • National Portrait Gallery (Hugh McDiarmid)
  • College of Orgonomy, New York (A S Neil)
  • Scottish National Portrait Gallery (A S Neill)
  • Glasgow City Art Gallery (Manny Shinwell)
  • Humanities Research Center Austin, Texas (Tom Stoppard)
  • Gordon Russell Design Museum (Sir Gordon Russell)
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