A Message from Lori About Her Process

Update April 2024: I am excited to be taking up the 2024 Marsden Artist in Residence position. During my five-week residency, I will be engaging with students through classroom workshops, critiques, and by providing them with the opportunity to observe my creative process as I develops a series of artworks for exhibition.

Art is an expression, and it can activate us to notice, record, interpret and respond. I am passionate about the patterns, rhythms and colour of our landscape.

The land we stand on, what it provides, how it is made, the geology and layers creating hills, valleys, rivers and bush, are things that increasingly fascinate and inspire me, to understand and tell the story of our heartland starting with a simple pencil and paper.

My practice is to observe the architecture of the landscape, capture it in a series of drawings, then recompose, cut and collage the drawings together until I have composition with pattern and rhythm. 

It is then that it is ready to be transferred to a heavy cotton rag paper and be worked from a sketch into a painting.

I am an artist and designer creating original, distinctive, and recognisable work. I use gouache and watercolour paint on Saunders Waterford cotton rag paper.