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 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.

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New works by Sophie Thynne. Solo Exhibition with Crean and Company at JM Gallery, London. November 2025

Solo exhibition at 2 Blenheim Crescent, London September 2023

Solo exhibition at 2 Blenheim Crescent, London, October2021

Solo show, The Tabernacle, London W11, June 2016

Group shows:

Crean and Company, The spirit of colour, December 2024

Browse and Darby Summer Exhibition, July 2024

Browse and Darby Christmas Exhibition, December 2023

Unpolished Space, Stow on the Wold, 2022 and 2023