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Holme Beach oil on canvas 15 x 20cm Footnote: Lorraine’s paintings draw strongly on the sense of space, light and atmosphere that she finds in the empty, isolated panoramas of the Wash and of the North Norfolk coast. "The challenge facing me as an artist is to remake on canvas the monumental yet momentary and fluid qualities that I encounter in these environments and their natural phenomena. I paint in the studio, from memories and recollected impressions and from sketches and photographs taken in the field. My approach is reflective, intuitive and often subliminal. I apply, remove and re-apply paint in the very flexible and physical manner that oil paint allows. I work over time, repeatedly layering paint and building up the surface of the painting until I have achieved a specific sense of place or atmosphere. I often seek to balance isolation and absence with a sense of harmonious calm and stillness. The paintings involve a pursuit of things that are indistinct, elusive and ever-changing. I strive for paintings with a liquid, viscous quality where ambiguities of surface and reflection and of depth and distance can combine to convey the ambiguities of land, sea and sky”

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