Sean Thornhill is an artist and designer from Cambridgeshire. He has been freelancing in design for many years, working with companies including Disney. It was an old University friend who inspired Sean to start creating art.
After spending years sat at a computer in a digital world, Sean started to create art between freelance projects, and quickly realised he missed the manual creative process that it involved. He now works in a number of areas from Graphic design, printmaking and the creation of 3D wall sculptures. Sean uses screen printing and block printing to create compositions which explore the relationship between geometric shapes, colours and textures, under the influence of Mid-century style.
After experimenting with block printing, Sean looked at the technique with an inventive eye, and began to transform his old blocks into relief sculptures. These sculptures have now become part of his creative process when developing new compositions for printing, whether it be for block or screen printing.
Sean uses a variety of processes when coming up with new art, preferring to start with a sketch which he then perfects on the computer ready to be made into either a paper or vinyl stencil for screen printing. “When ever I come up with a composition, I can always picture it in 3D, I think this goes back to my days at university where I studied Product design” says the printmaker. Recently, Sean has been collaborating with a local friend who can laser-cut mdf; “manipulating and moving these shapes can sometimes create new compositions for printing…. Most of my prints and compositions tend to become 3D sculptures at some point”.
“I am really looking forward to continuing this journey, I have only been printing and creating art for just over 18 months now and I don’t want this ride to stop. My art was initially just experimenting with the time I had between freelance projects and now it’s slowly becoming more than a part-time hobby. It’s a way of life I had put on hold, and i’m really happy I found it again”.
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