Lori Loveberry-George

I express myself best through the study of form. With a variety of mark making tools and materials, I paint on my drawings and draw on my paintings. I am primarily interested in the gesture, movement, and expression of the human form and nature. I play with spontaneous and intuitive mark making and color, often working ambidextrously to capture a movement, a gesture, or a thought. It paralels a personal process of beginnings, scarring, and healing. I work on multiple pieces at the same time, which keeps the work fresh and energetic. I experiment combining traditional and non-traditional artist materials, as wel as historical artistic methods and materials. I research and like the tactility of making my own paints and binders— watercolors, oils, clays, and glues— muling them on a marble slab. I worked many years as a decorative and mural painter, which expanded my skil set incorporating plasters, gilding clays, glues, metal leaf, trowels, and sandpaper. My substrate is typicaly heavy watercolor paper, mounted nautical charts, and wood, which are al versatile and alows for aggressive manipulation. Nautical charts serve a two-fold purpose: they stand on their own as a finished work of art, drawn and painted over, it’s art on art.