Meet The Artist

Alyssa Thorne

Alyssa Thorne is an award-winning fantasy artist and writer from the Pacific Northwest, working in an ever-growing array of mediums including sculpture, painting, and photography. Each of Alyssa’s photographs features a full-scale set built entirely by hand, including natural materials such as fruit and flowers, alongside her original props or altered antiques.

Alyssa creates each image using only in-camera effects and (primarily) natural lighting. No digital compositing is involved in her images. A deep love of fantasy, science fiction, comics, and cinematic practical effects, alongside a longtime study of classical still-life paintings, has alchemized into Alyssa’s signature dark, dreamlike aesthetic—rooted as much in pop culture as it is in art history.

AWARDS

World's Top Ten Still Life Photographers 2022 - One Eye Land

  •  Fine Art & Flowers: Bronze Winner -  "Flowers from the Underworld Part II"
  •  Fine Art & Flowers: Bronze Winner - " Life, Death, & Time"
  •  Fine Art & Flowers: Finalist - "Still Life With Dogwood"
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
  • At The Doorway of Dreaming - Ghost Gallery, Seattle, WA 2023
  • In Bloom - Salon IvoryMill Creek, WA - 2023
GROUP
  • Annual Holiday Miniature Art Show -Ghost Gallery, Seattle WA, 2022
  • Emerging Artist Corner - Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA, 2013
  • Polaroid Project - Floating World Comics,  Portland, OR. 2010
  • Girls Doing Girl Things - Worksound Gallery, Portland OR, 2009
  • Light Sensitive Material - Launch Pad Gallery, Portland, OR. 2009
PUBLICATIONS
  • Spring Issue - Procession Magazine, 2022
  • Autumn Eternal - Photo book, Alyssa Thorne 2020
  • Girls on Film Photo Book - Girls on Film 2013
  • Girls On Film Zine - Girls on Film 2011
  • Red/Hot Editorial - Sloane Magazine 2010
CONTACT

"If a picture is worth a thousand words, Alyssa Thorne’s are not just a jumble of adjectives, but whole stories caught up in the play of light and dark, color and its absence, objects man-made and naturally grown."


- Ren Riley, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine

Interviews

BEAUTIFUL BIZARRE MAGAZINE

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"A Beguiling Lens: Alyssa Thorne’s Baroque-Inspired Still Life"

HALLOWEEN ART & TRAVEL PODCAST

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"Alyssa Thorne: Still Life Storyteller"

MOTH & MYTH

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"Artist Feature: Alyssa Thorne - Forest Noir"

UNQUIET THINGS

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"Midnight Floriographer, Alyssa Thorne"