Alan Thornhill obituary

My father, the sculptor Alan Thornhill, who has died aged 98, is best known as the creator of the Putney Sculpture Trail, the largest outdoor collection of work by one artist in London.At the studio he set up in Putney, south-west London, in 1959, Alan pioneered a radical and improvisatory approach to claywork that involved dispensing with an internal armature and allowing content to emerge from his unconscious. Abstract pieces of the 1960s developed into large groups of figures. Pacifism, Jungi