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 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 the connection between human to earth, and by extension...the universe. 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  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”. Another reviewer stated "Loraine Veeck reveals an adeptness with pastels, capturing a spacial realism without photo-realism.  The flora selected is more scrub than wildflower.  The climate zone is arid not beach.  It's 'Chinatown'  not 'Beverly Hills 90210'."