Inspired by the duality of our nature.
Seeking the epic story behind everyday life.
Intention and intuition play equally important roles in Lori’s creative process. Work begins with playful curious experimentation, assemblage, removal, obscuring and restating. Sometimes the energy of a particular place, thought or feeling inspires the work; sometimes these emerge during the process of creating a painting. Texture, collage, and mixed media layer to build a sense of detail, mystery, and personal vocabulary.
A Masters of Architecture degree and fine art studies at the School of Visual Arts in New York City come together for the first time in her recent work, focusing on the edge of the city, the structures of the port, and in the importance of drawing in these pieces.
A number of collections hold Lori’s work, including the New York City Department of Education, the Edmonton Public School Board, the Technical University of Nova Scotia (now part of Dalhousie University), and many private collections in eight countries.
Lori continues to teach as a way of giving back to the community. She has been an instructor and/or guest critic in design fundamentals, architectural design, painting technique and creative process at venues as disparate as the Boston Architectural Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, artist guilds, community centres and her Vancouver studio, Redsokil Arts.
Sources of inspiration include Lee Bontecou, Joan Mitchell, John Marin and Odilon Redon. Lori states “I rely on freedom of expression and my willingness to address both the light and dark sides of our nature to create powerful, highly abstracted pieces.”
Lori’s current work exhibits a fascination with the visual, physical and metaphorical aspects of ports. The port is where city meets waterway. Humans continue to push and pull this territorial edge, drawing lines based on industry, wealth, national security, prestige, and panoramic vistas. The impact of time is palpable in the rise and fall of the tide, and the patina on any exposed surface. Ports are a place of beginnings and endings: the demarcation between city and ocean, people leaving loved ones behind or stepping out into the brave unknown. The work explores the sense of history accumulating and being eroded, the angular shapes/shadows/forms, and the mystery of the structures and their inner workings.
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