Lorna Allan – Fineart

Website: lornaallanfineart.com

International award-winning artist, Lorna Allan’s work has been published in calendars, books and magazines including "100 Ways to Paint Seascapes, Rivers and Lakes" a book by International Artist Magazine and in their Magazine under the title - “Master Painters of the World”. Her works are held in collections both in NZ and Internationally.

Continually seeking out the wild and beautiful as subjects for her paintings she travels throughout New Zealand recording High Country sheep stations, high peaks, stunning native forests, and secluded lakes which are transferred to canvas time and again. She works diligently to bring to life on canvas the mood and magic she felt when she first came across the places in her landscapes; places that at times she was so overwhelmed by the beauty and magic that she literally could not breathe. These are the ones that she knows she must paint. There is no choice.

She specializes in Heritage Commission work for rural property owners and others. The idea of these paintings is to keep the heritage and history of the family and farm through these art works by handing them down through the family generations.

Ever the adventurer with this same love of wilderness and extreme beauty, Lorna has sought unconventional methods of travel in some of the most remote parts of Alaska. A private tugboat and its’ Captain took her on a journey for this quest to reproduce not just majestic landscapes, but the birds and animals that make their home there. Many of the resultant paintings found their way back to this landscape that she says captured her soul.

Lorna has completed ‘Artist-in-Residence’ programs in South Canterbury, NZ, Stewart, British Columbia, USA, the small Eco-cruise ship ‘Discovery’ in Prince William Sound, Alaska, and in Grand Teton National Parks, Wyoming, USA, painting there alongside some of the finest landscape painters of our times.

Her journey continues…..