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moment, click and a tool in the lower right corner of the painting will
appear- you will be able to zoom and see surface details!
If you are interested in purchasing artwork please email me at loreleimacbeth@gmail.com.
“Painting. I begin with very little, maybe some clippings I like or a list of words in a sketchbook. I mix colors and lay down a pattern of boxes. Then I fill them in with text or image, painting over and over, scratching in, covering and sorting, deleting and adding, creating a comfortable design. Isn’t this what we do all day long? We organize the things and people and memories and thoughts in our lives. Where do we put them? Albums, drawers, shelves, Blackberry address books, journals... I’m the kind of person that wears the shirt on the top of the drawer; if I can’t see it, I tend to forget it exists. The box paintings and even text paintings, with their questions and thoughtful statements, are ways for me to avoid losing ideas in drawers and bins or the depths of a diary.”
“I wanted to be a writer, a poet perhaps, but many of my thoughts are only short little stories; a phrase or question. These paintings are often vehicles for these statements.”
Lorelei’s themes have ranged from fanciful portraits and characters to abstract designs. She also illustrated the children's book, Walking in Grandma’s Garden.
She teaches fine arts in the Chicago Public Schools and at the Greenleaf Art Center in Rogers Park. She lives in Chicago with her husband and two children.
If you are interested in purchasing artwork please email me at loreleimacbeth@gmail.com.
“Painting. I begin with very little, maybe some clippings I like or a list of words in a sketchbook. I mix colors and lay down a pattern of boxes. Then I fill them in with text or image, painting over and over, scratching in, covering and sorting, deleting and adding, creating a comfortable design. Isn’t this what we do all day long? We organize the things and people and memories and thoughts in our lives. Where do we put them? Albums, drawers, shelves, Blackberry address books, journals... I’m the kind of person that wears the shirt on the top of the drawer; if I can’t see it, I tend to forget it exists. The box paintings and even text paintings, with their questions and thoughtful statements, are ways for me to avoid losing ideas in drawers and bins or the depths of a diary.”
“I wanted to be a writer, a poet perhaps, but many of my thoughts are only short little stories; a phrase or question. These paintings are often vehicles for these statements.”
Lorelei’s themes have ranged from fanciful portraits and characters to abstract designs. She also illustrated the children's book, Walking in Grandma’s Garden.
She teaches fine arts in the Chicago Public Schools and at the Greenleaf Art Center in Rogers Park. She lives in Chicago with her husband and two children.
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