I love a good road trip.  It's a great way to get off the beaten path and see all the corners of this world - all that nature has to share and all the ways people around the world find to create and innovate.  Both are a constant source of inspiration to me.   "Let's just see" is the foundational phrase of every great adventure.  "Let's just see" what is over the hill, in that town, around the corner, down that road, where it leads, down that path, what it tastes like, if they'll let us in...Let's see if we can make it...Let's just see.  

In the same way, creating art is to me a never-ending grand adventure.  Color and technique are what drive me artistically.  The interplay of colors to create a mood or communicate a moment and the use of brushstroke or other techniques to create striking effects - the possibilities are endless and fill my head with far more ideas than I have lifetime to create.  I have captured some of those ideas on canvas, and share them here with you.

I've always been interested in various art forms and particularly enjoyed drawing as a foundation for the art I create today.  When I was young, my Mom signed me up for drawing and pen and ink classes at the local art center.  That led to my studies in studio art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison followed by a 17-year career at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where my exploration of various art forms and concepts continued to blossom. During this time, I worked primarily in pastel art and, surrounded by colleagues who were fellow art lovers and creators, we sometimes traded our art amongst ourselves.

My husband and I share with our children the value of the varied art experience.  From a children's opera at the Salzburg Music Festival to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to all the amazing roadside art we've seen on our road trips across the Midwest and Western states to a Chuckwagon dinner in Hill City, South Dakota. We've brought our children to SOHO art galleries and left our spray-painted mark at Cadillac Ranch.  Our children, in turn, have exposed us to a whole new world of digital art.  What an unending flurry of creativity we have in our world! 

I've been influenced over the years by many people and artistic interests from Botticelli to Frank Bowling, Goth music to Classical, urban settings to remote regions.  By far, my greatest inspiration derives from the vast array of people I have encountered while traveling and exploring...people who have created in order to lift others and open minds - the world-class festivals, the extraordinary chocolate shops in remote towns, people sharing their woven arts, their food arts, their ancient arts, their native arts, their wild ideas and their sincere desire to try something new or honor the work of those before us and share it with all of us.  I'm inspired by that exuberance. 

I invite you to explore my website and email me with any questions about my artwork, the print options or the purchasing process.  Thank you so much for your interest in my art and for visiting my website!   

Lori