A message from Lori about her process

Update 2024:  2024 Samuel Marsden Collegiate Artist in Residence. During my five-week residency I worked alongside students providing classroom workshops. We designed and completed a luminous installation for the college Matariki festival.

Designing art allows me to notice, record, interpret and respond to the pattern, rhythm and colour of the surrounding landscape. 

I try to find things that capture and celebrate the details of buildings and spaces that are the day to day backdrop of the life we live.

 Starting with a simple pencil and paper, I look at the pattern of the landscape,  capturing it in a series of drawings to compose, cut and collage into a final image.  Using gouache paint on cotton rag paper, I often tip forward the perspective to create detailed layers in each composition.

I am an artist and designer creating original and recognisable work. I use quality gouache paint on Saunders Waterford cotton paper.

Some personal highlights and events I have participated in:

Pikimai: Nelson arts festival 3D digital mapping projection . Oct 2011

Te Ramaroa. Nelson light festival. 2013 to 2017.

Artist in Residence. Samuel Marsden Collegiate, Wellington. 2024.

Coming up:  A project in Te Ramaroa light festival , June 2025, called Teenage endangered Insects.