Lorne is a musician that stumbled into abstract artistic expression as a means of therapy. As he continued the meditative practice, he noticed there was a pattern, a similarity, between works that now informs everything he does.  

 

Lorne is influenced by Art Nouveaux,  Surrealism,  landscapes, growth, decay.   Through the carving of each painting, individual landscapes appear. Close examination reveals these vignettes, creating new works while providing greater intimacy with each work. 

 

Each done in oil, they show their greatest glory in sunlight, as the caverns and peaks create shadow,  and the paint shows its true vibrancy.  

 

Other than paint, Lorne is a singer, brand ambassador and dabbles with a sewing machine every once in a while. 

 

 

 

"My painting has always come from the need to provide self-therapy, and these paintings were no exception. However, many influences abound in my work that are evident and a part of my aesthetic. Art nouveau, landscapes, surrealism. The kind of eerie beauty behind old walls crumbling, showing decades of paint and wallpaper among the plaster. The marbled paper in old turn-of-the-twentieth-century book covers. And the relationship between free expression and restraint, as every piece starts with color scheme and a song and no other idea of what the end result may be until the "feeling" is right. 

   

All paintings begin the same way- with the paint placed directly on the canvas in an organic way directly from the tube.  As the music plays, I grab a palette knife (my only artistic tool) and carve it into the canvas, creating broad long strokes of color and crags of texture.  The overall result being a work that invites the viewer to become immensely intimate, to look closely, to be drawn in by the miniature mountains and crevasses, and to be involved with the work for long periods of time."