ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES - LORI LAMONT

Lori LaMont is a self-taught watercolor artist whose work has been featured in art exhibits throughout the United States. As a young child, LaMont pored over the pictures in storybooks, becoming aware of and interested in the different stages of drawing and painting. At the age of about 11, Post-Impressionism became her first true love. LaMont became an artist because of her absolute love of the arts and her passion for creating art, a combination of pure joy and discipline.

LaMont starts her workday with a "nice long walk" through her neighborhood or along the beach. She then sets to work for a seven or eight hour day, five days a week. She is a self-taught watercolor artist. After graduating high school she moved to New York City for two years, and traveled through Europe on a self-guided tour through every museum and gallery she could find.

LaMont particularly loves art because of the emotional connection the viewer makes with the image, "subconsciously creating for it a history as well as a future." She strives to create work that will communicate a sense of majesty, dignity and grace. LaMont strives to express her animal subjects as unique beings - things that you just don’t see in everyday life. Says the artist, "As time goes on the world becomes populated less with animals and more with people, and animals are becoming more precious and rare." It is this specialness that LaMont seeks to convey.

LaMont has shown her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout California and Alaska. Works from all of her series have been widely collected by individuals and corporations in Southern California.