Mackenzie Thorpe

In December 2018 Mackenzie Thorpe celebrated 30 years since he moved to Richmond in Yorkshire and began to establish himself as a professional artist. Since then his uplifting artwork, which is rooted in authenticity and always carries a message of hope, has taken him from the shipyards of Middlesbrough to the status of internationally acclaimed artist. His anniversary year saw his work celebrated with a public sculpture on the banks of the river Tees where he grew up, with his appointment as Official Artist to the Tour de Yorkshire across the hills and dales where he made his name, and over the oceans to the shores of America and Japan, where his atmospheric and poignant pictures are as highly acclaimed as they are here in the UK.