Loraine Veeck is a native Californian living in the Los Angeles area. She studied art first at Pierce College in Los Angeles, and then at California State University in Northridge. Her mentor was Alice Beamish who studied extensively with Hans Hoffman at Berkeley. She learned from Alice the importance of spatial concepts, movement, color, and allowing the intuitive flow of creativity. Her home town, San Bernardino, is a valley surrounded by spectacular mountains. Because of her exposure to this landscape, the continuing theme of all her work has been our connectedness with the Earth. Veeck is drawn to the Southwest which is unencumbered by heavy foliage, and exposes a landscape that is powerful in its movement—the rise of the mountains, the etched out canyons, and the thrust of the land’s rocks and boulders. Veeck’s work conveys the mood found in some of the still uninhabited areas of the Southwest. Veeck paints with raw earth colors and a simplicity that doesn’t distract from the unique energy of the western landscape. Veeck has been given 22 exhibitions in galleries throughout the Los Angeles area. She has exhibited in invitational and juried shows for several years and has won many awards. She is included in such public collections as Amgen Corporation, Allstate Insurance Corporation, City of Thousand Oaks and McDonald’s Corporation. The following was written by a gallery director and art historian for a press release. “Her works, often featuring uninhabited, moody high desert landscapes or isolated creeks and streams have a photographic quality. Veeck’s technical skill combined with her sense of color and ability to structure composition makes her an artist’s artist, universally admired by layman and art historian alike”. Recent or upcoming exhibitions: Recent Paintings - Whites Gallery, Montrose, November 2009 Fringes...The Hills and Canyons of the San Fernando Valley - La Galeria Gitana, San Fernando.