Amber-Lynn Thorne: Because of the Sea
“Blue, like the colour of the sea, the most expensive colour, the colour of my dad’s boat, his eyes and mine, the colour of Go Leafs Go, the colour of grief.”
After the loss of her father, Amber-Lynn Thorne turned to the shoreline, gathering pottery fragments shaped by the waves. These worn blue shards, imbued with both fragility and resilience, became vessels for her to process her grief and find solace. In her work, Thorne weaves together ceramics and written reflections. She transforms the ocean into a place where discarded histories are lovingly reclaimed—a boundless reservoir of memory. Her art invites us to witness the quiet power of the hand: to hold, to mend, and to connect the tangible with the deeply emotional.
About Amber-Lynn Thorne
Amber-Lynn Thorne describes herself as "an artist who owes everything to the ocean." She is from Thornlea, NL, on the isthmus of the Avalon Peninsula, where generations of her family have fished. She is an interdisciplinary visual artist and graduate of the Visual Arts Program at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Thorne’s practice incorporates imagery symbolic of the fishery and the ocean. Her work represents a reflection on, and metaphorical continuation of, her family’s fishing legacy.