Beatrice Thornton
Bio
Beatrice Thornton (she/her) is an Oakland-based artist working in black and white film photography through the lens of bioregionalism. Since returning to her home state from New York in 2018, she has been building an art practice centered around sustainable analog photographic processes.
Beatrice develops film and prints in her home darkroom, creating developer recipes and using ingredients that include foraged plants, rainwater, and low toxicity household ingredients in place of traditional darkroom chemicals. Her evolving photographic style mainly depicts her local landscape, often through in-camera double exposures. She pairs developers with plants featured in or that grow within the landscape pictured.
Photo credit: Miles Steuding