Beatrice Thornton is an Oakland-based artist, archivist, and art and design historian working in black and white gelatin silver photography. Since returning to her home state from New York in 2018, she has been building an art practice centered around more sustainable analog photographic processes. Beatrice develops film and prints in her home darkroom, creating developer recipes using foraged plants, rainwater, and low toxicity household ingredients in place of traditional darkroom chemicals.
Her photographic works often depict her local landscape and surroundings through in-camera double exposures and multi-negative compositions. She aims to create conceptual dialogues between her imagery and the materials she chooses for developer recipes.