Biography
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Lorelei Boyce, BAID
Millarville, AB T0L 1K0 Canada |
Born and raised near Minitonas, Manitoba, Lorelei (Lori) spent her childhood enamored with the vastness of the prairies and the shady solitude of woodland. Growing up in a grain farming family, her working in the yard and spending time in the field was an opportunity to study the play of light and line in the landscape. Everywhere she saw contour and colour. The sky painted a new picture every night. Lines of hydro poles and swaths of barley vanished into the distance just as the grain fields faded. Buildings, tired and worn, cast long shadows over uneven blades of grass. The appearance of animals and people could be reduced to topographical contours of beautiful colours. Moments and memories filled with emotion etched her mind.
Secondary school art training inspired Lori to capture nature and people through charcoal media, acrylic and oil paint. The tone-on-tone representation of play of light was key to her artistic growth in capturing play-of-light through colour contouring in her later works. Her grade-school acrylic and oil works trained her in capturing form through contrasting adjacencies. Both creativity and her perception of nature became more measured.
Necessity lead to her being employed in some very uncreative fields. Lori trained and was employed extensively in administration. She worked as a Canadian distribution coordinator for a film company, a clinical research assistant, a legal secretary, departmental administrator and task force leader. While this work would have been fulfilling for many, it didn't speak to her creativity.
Looking for an artistic outlet that would put her administrative experience to good use, Lori earned a degree in interior design and quickly learned to love the combination of creating interior spaces, designing buildings and administering large projects. Envisioning structures, representing them on paper and managing their construction was an ideal balance of creativity and order.
It wasn't until the birth of her daughter that she realized the importance of ensuring she lived a part of each day breathing 'to the bottom of her lungs'. Lori and her family moved to a farmyard near Millarville, and there her awakening in contour and colour took hold. Childhood memories soon became vivid. She returned to watching the sky change during each sunrise and sunset, followed the cadence of the fence posts and again saw the colour and contour in the animals, people and landscape around her.
And she began to transfer it onto canvas.
Her design training gave her works both control and variety. Her art history education and art training became a vehicle for the two-dimensional embodiment of the emotion from her memories and life experiences.
Lori continues to work designing residential structures from the ground up that embrace the user. Her homes are the human-scale translation of a 2-dimensional painting into a 3-dimensional environment that wraps the occupant with her signature warmth, boldness, contour and color.
In her spare time, Lori continues to capture the moments that capture her heart.
Secondary school art training inspired Lori to capture nature and people through charcoal media, acrylic and oil paint. The tone-on-tone representation of play of light was key to her artistic growth in capturing play-of-light through colour contouring in her later works. Her grade-school acrylic and oil works trained her in capturing form through contrasting adjacencies. Both creativity and her perception of nature became more measured.
Necessity lead to her being employed in some very uncreative fields. Lori trained and was employed extensively in administration. She worked as a Canadian distribution coordinator for a film company, a clinical research assistant, a legal secretary, departmental administrator and task force leader. While this work would have been fulfilling for many, it didn't speak to her creativity.
Looking for an artistic outlet that would put her administrative experience to good use, Lori earned a degree in interior design and quickly learned to love the combination of creating interior spaces, designing buildings and administering large projects. Envisioning structures, representing them on paper and managing their construction was an ideal balance of creativity and order.
It wasn't until the birth of her daughter that she realized the importance of ensuring she lived a part of each day breathing 'to the bottom of her lungs'. Lori and her family moved to a farmyard near Millarville, and there her awakening in contour and colour took hold. Childhood memories soon became vivid. She returned to watching the sky change during each sunrise and sunset, followed the cadence of the fence posts and again saw the colour and contour in the animals, people and landscape around her.
And she began to transfer it onto canvas.
Her design training gave her works both control and variety. Her art history education and art training became a vehicle for the two-dimensional embodiment of the emotion from her memories and life experiences.
Lori continues to work designing residential structures from the ground up that embrace the user. Her homes are the human-scale translation of a 2-dimensional painting into a 3-dimensional environment that wraps the occupant with her signature warmth, boldness, contour and color.
In her spare time, Lori continues to capture the moments that capture her heart.
