An Arts Council Award winner of 1977, and one of the original Wapping artists, Lorraine has exhibited widely. Her work is in private collections and public spaces. She has also executed numerous commissions, for homes and corporate spaces, including hotels, offices, restaurants, hairdressers, and foyers.

Lorraine’s paintings are large, colourful and abstract. With her commissioned work, she enjoys creating the painting for the space required. She is often inspired by just colour and movement to begin the painting. As a London artist, scale and architecture, and the feeling of being small against a landscape of tall buildings, are also influences .

Lorraine has worked in film and theatre as an actress, and is inspired by the experience of sitting in front of a large cinema screen, and the visual excitement of theatrical lighting. She is also a keen Jazz singer and her love of music is another source of inspiration.

Her brilliant use of colour and the feeling of movement, suggest a real human experience, even though her work is abstract. Line and space, the feeling of advancing and receding, suggest mood, atmosphere, human emotion, light and dark.

Certain motifs recur, such as the bending shape like a simplified human form or the bent branch of a tree. Her work is very physical, and the actual movement of the sweep of painting, plays a big part.
One of her paintings, ‘BALANCED ON A KNIFE EDGE’, has a feeling like vertigo, as if falling from a plane and overlooking fields.

Lorraine’s early work was figurative - portraits and people in situations. It was during her training at Chelsea School of Art, and later at Goldsmiths College, that her worked developed into abstraction. Lautrec, Matisse, Abstract Expressionists, & the American Colour Field painters are still her great loves.

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