Biography
Lori White is a contemporary realist painter of landscapes and still lifes. She is also an active environmentalist, having transitioned from a successful career as an environmental scientist. Lori is an Associate Member of the Oil Painters of America and a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America. She is an active member of Visual Art Exchange, Durham Art Guild, Pastel Society of North Carolina, Tipping Paint Artists, and Landscape Artists International. Lori paints in her studio in the historic Carter Building in the Glenwood South district of Raleigh when she is not out plein air painting landscapes and cityscapes. Lori has studied with some of the top representational painters in the country including Luana Luconi Winner, Caroline Jasper, Sean Dye, Anita Louise West, Albert Handell, Chad Hughes, Bob Rohm, Greg Biolchini, Scott Christensen, Frank Serrano, and Kevin Macpherson. Her work has been published in Painting North Carolina – Impressions en Plein Air and Best of Artists – America.
Artists Statement
A primary goal of my landscape painting is to bring to the viewer’s awareness the magnificent surroundings we all share and must protect. I have worked passionately to preserve our natural resources and to document our beautiful, fragile planet in my paintings. Currently, I am working on several series, one of which features landscapes and cityscapes of North Carolina. These works include marshes, lakes, streams, vineyards, old barns, wet city streets, and anything else that really captures my attention. I do both plein air paintings of the landscapes and larger studio paintings in which I work to recapitulate the sensory qualities I experience when painting on site. My fog series attempts to evoke those transient, magical mornings when heavy fog can transform the most mundane lake or stream into an otherworldly place and time. My traveling still life series attempts to capture those wonderful anticipatory moments when we are planning our next travels to some far-away place.