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Valerie Thornton
1931–1991
Etcher and painter, born in London. Was married to the artist Michael Chase, curator of the Minories Art Gallery, Colchester. She studied at Regent Street Polytechnic School of Art, 1950–3, and for eight months in 1954 at Stanley William Hayter’s Atelier 17, in Paris, an experience she termed “electrifying”.
Text Source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)