Sophie Thynne
 EgretsOil on canvas 80 x 60 cm £2,500 |  Learning to flyOil on canvas 30 x 24 cm £1,100 |  Tarifa trystOil and pumice/canvas 30 x 24 cm £1,100 |
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 Antonia's churchOil on canvas 80 x 60 cm £2,500 |  Quarter to four in Clapham30 x 24 cm £1,100 |  The clumsy bride of AragonOil on canvas 50 x 40 cm £1,600 |
 Good girl Bad girlOil on canvas 90 x 70 cm £2,900 |
Sophie is a self taught artist working mainly in oils. She has recently started to produce prints as well.
She was born in London in 1968, and now lives in Gloucestershire with her family.
Her work draws on themes of childhood, magic, grief, literature, legends, life and death, dark and light and colour, lots of colour.
Sophie frequently uses colour fields to start a painting, then adds figurative imagery often from her imagination, but not always. Maybe a saint, an angel, a lone figure, a dying bull, set against blocks of bold colour. She strives to convey both poignancy and humour in her work.
She finds inspiration in dreams, books, daily life and memory. “I will look for a painting in anything, a story told to me, a song on the radio, a tyre on the side of the road, anything that sparks an image in my mind.”
Her influences range far and wide, living and dead. She sites Mark Rothko, Craigie Aitchison, Tom Anholt, Anne Rothenstein and Peter Doig among many.
Sophie has works in several private collections in the UK, USA, Mexico and Europe.
Solo exhibition, The Tabernacle, London W11
Solo exhibition October 2021 at 2 Blenheim Crescent, London
Solo exhibition September 2023 at 2 Blenheim Crescent, London
New works by Sophie Thynne. Solo exhibition with Crean and Company at JM Gallery November 2025, Portobello Rd, London
Group shows:
Browse & Darby Christmas group show 2023
Browse & Darby Summer Exhibition 2024
Unpolished Space, Stow on the Wold, 2022 and 2023
Crean and Company, The Spirit of Colour, December 2024