Lorraine Bromley
Watercolor touched me early and deeply in my career as a Graphic Designer and Artist. The fundamentals be- guile and intoxicate me: design, composition, relationships between elements, color.
I capture design components that excite me in the richness of nature as well as architectural patterns. These fragments and views are lodged in my fantasy during my travels around the world: the botanicals, the cloud forests, the gardens in Costa Rica; the Renaissance and baroque architecture in Eastern Europe; and sometimes the daily mundane all around us. Butterflies, ancient landscapes, horses in Eire, boats, stone houses, fences, blade shaped leaves, and flowers of all sorts. These myriad snippets of interest ricochet off each other in my imagination and at times combine in fun ways to produce complex convergences or distill down to clean forms, a calligraphy of whimsy.
A limitless passion to experiment pushes me to challenge and combine watercolor into mixed media and mono- type printmaking. I love to draw with ink and pencil in sketchbooks as well as photograph subjects to note their forms for patterns and study.
Every painting is a journey, one is never like the last. It’s what keeps me coming back for more - playing with the light of the universe.