The Art Of Lori Field

Lori’s collage and drawing based works begin as streams of consciousness. The mediums vary. Some are colored pencil drawings on vintage slate chalkboards or silverpoint renderings meditatively drawn on gessoed paper and panel. Other works are mixed media paintings that incorporate colored pencil drawings, hand colored, one of a kind prints, collage, thread, encaustic, and beeswax. The “creatures” or human-animal hybrids, which evoke subliminal, mysterious worlds, fit into the artist’s own peculiar, psychological landscape and evolving mythological context. Lori is drawn to depicting animals which don’t speak or cry out, like rabbits, deer, giraffes, zebras, and flying fish – as a way of addressing the question of vulnerability and emphasizing the hyperawareness that comes from listening intently without speaking. (All artwork copyrighted and courtesy of the artist Lori Field)

Little Summer in the Singing Woods*
Colored pencil drawing on rice paper,
collage, thread, encaustic, beeswax
on cradled clayboard panel
8" x 8" x 2"
Eastern Bonnet*
Colored pencil, collage, thread,
encaustic and beeswax on wood
8” x 12” x 2”
Unconditional Love*
Colored pencil drawing on rice paper,
collage, thread, encaustic, beeswax
12" x 6" x 2"
Door of Hope*
Colored pencil, collage, thread,
encaustic and beeswax on wood
16” x 12” x 2”
Pangea*
Colored pencil, collage, thread,
encaustic and beeswax on wood
8” x 12” x 2”
Crazymaker*
Colored pencil, collage, thread,
encaustic and beeswax on wood
6” x 6”
Quadroon*
Colored pencil, collage, thread,
encaustic and beeswax on wood
6” x 12” x 2”
Deer Bunny*
Colored pencil drawing on rice paper,
collage, thread, encaustic, beeswax on
cradled clayboard panel
6" x 6" x 2"
Blue Putti*
Colored pencil, collage, thread,
encaustic and beeswax on wood
6” x 12” x 2”
Mom Always Liked You Best*
Colored pencil, collage, thread,
encaustic and beeswax on wood
12” x 12”

Lori Field exhibits her work regionally, nationally, and internationally in many group and solo exhibitions. She is primarily self-taught, having had less than a year’s formal training in visual arts at S.U.N.Y. College at Purchase. Lori left school, moved to New York City, and earned her living first as a bartender, then as a freelance textile designer and illustrator for the next nineteen years. She began doing fine art again in 1996 after a series of events caused her to reflect and rethink the direction of both her personal and creative life.

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*All artwork copyrighted and courtesy of the artist Lori Field

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