
ART by Angharad Rhian Thorpe
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Acrylics on canvas

Jewellery

Acrylics on canvas-Scape
Biography
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
It’s as simple as that for me, a relaxing pleasure. It just so happens that shared my projects and people have liked my paintings and shown an interest!
My work brings a mixture of subtle and vibrant colours. Through abstract forms and intuitive texturised marking, I aim to create spaces where feeling comes before meaning. Colour becomes a vessel for memory, mood, and movement-inviting viewers to slow down, reflect, and experience their own emotional response without the need of explanation.
Painting and silversmithing are two of the few things that slow my mind down and brings me an inner calm. I find joy in sharing my art with others and hope that they share an emotional connection and offers some visual harmony. I aim to develop a practice that continually experiments with colour relationships, scale, and texture, expanding how abstract colour can communicate feeling, presence, and connection. I continue to explore now techniques and love to see the impacts of these.
inspiration
My inspiration emerges through the act of making itself. I’ve always loved being creative and my Dad really inspired me and set me up with creative ventures in my early teens, particularly jewellery making. A have a jewellery range inspired by Victorian pocket watches and use recycled metal from this period. I now donate a % of all sales to Alzheimer’s UK for Dad and others.
Experimentation, intuition, and spontaneity guide my use of colour, texture, and form. Each piece develops organically, shaped by layered decisions and emotional responses during the process.
I explore how colour interactions can create energy, balance, or tension, inviting the viewer into a sensory experience rather than a narrative one.
I love to work in an organic way, and watch a piece evolve.
medium
I work primarily with mixed media, using acrylic paint, inks, and pen on canvas and wooden boards. My process is intuitive and layered, allowing each material to interact and respond to the others. Acrylics form the foundation of the work, providing structure, depth, and bold areas of colour. Inks are introduced to create fluid movement, transparency, and subtle shifts in tone.
Through layering, adding texture and experimentation, I build complex surfaces that balance spontaneity with control, resulting in abstract works that are rich in colour, texture, and energy. I absolutely love the process.
With my jewellery I use a mainly sterling silver, some gold and copper too. All the metal I use is recycled.
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