Visual Art League of Lewisville

Lorraine Hayes Exhibits Her Work

February 1st, 2004

The featured artist at the Lewisville Visual Art League Gallery during the month of February is by Highland Village artist, Lorraine Hayes. She will exhibit mixed media work on paper and board using acrylics, watercolor, and photographs. There will be an artist’s reception at the gallery on February 7 from 4 to 7 pm and the public is invited to attend.

Lorraine Hayes was born in Chicago, IL, of immigrant parents. After multiple family moves, she completed her undergraduate degree in San Antonio, TX. She and her husband moved to Sherman TX in 1960 where she nurtured her love for art by studying with private instructors. In 1983 she earned her MFA degree at North Texas State University in Denton, with a concentration in printmaking. Postgraduate studies in watercolor and drawing were done at the American College in Leysin, Switzerland in 1984. She achieved Signature Status in the Southwest Watercolor Society and in the Texas Visual Arts Association. After her husband retired in 1993 they moved to Highland Village.

Lorraine’s art career includes work in oils, acrylics, watercolor, and printmaking. She became interested in the computer in 1991 and has adapted this new tool in her work in order to use her digitized photographs. She has developed a personal style which utilized printmaking, watermedia, and collage.

She has given lectures in art appreciation at the college level and to community organizations and has published art commentary in local newspapers when she lived in Sherman. Her paintings, prints and collages have been included in a long list of national and regional art competitions and her work is in the collection of the Meadows Museum of Art, Shreveport, LA, and in the Oklahoma Art Center in Oklahoma City.

Beside the Dallas area art centers and exhibit spaces, she has exhibited work at the Abilene Fine Art Museum, Oklahoma Art Center, Irving Art Center, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA, West Texas Museum of Art, Midland, TX, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS, the Slidell Art Center, Slidell, LA, and in the International des Beaux Arts, Paris, France.

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