Gallery Entrance

Heart of
America
Painting

Barn Along
the Road

No Boundaries:
Experiments in Pastels--
A class taught 
by Lorraine W. Trenholm

About the Artist

Lorraine W. Trenholm

Fine Art

I love experimenting with collage materials---oriental papers, jewelry findings, pastels, water colors---to create images and light effects in paintings of dogs, horses, and landscapes. 

Lorraine Wallace Trenholm was born in New York, where she lived until completing studies as a painting major at Pratt Institute, in the late 1960s.  She has been making drawings and paintings for people with interests in dogs and horses since she was in high school. Her work has been shown at many dog events, and several of her drawings and pastels have appeared on the covers of the Saluki Quarterly, a breed specialty magazine.  Her paintings are in private collections in the United States and abroad.

Lorraine resumed regularly painting and showing in 1984 on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, were she now lives.  She devotes her time to creating landscape paintings, inspired by Cape Cod and some of the landscapes she has created. She has also developed a flair for animal artistry, using pastels, oils, and collages, of dogs and horses.

Lorraine has shown and won in juried shows held by the Cape Cod Art Association, and she has won first place in the Leo Diehl Competition, held by the Chatham Creative Arts Center. She has been juried into the Art Show at the Dog Show several times, and she has won awards in oil, pastel, and collage.  Lorraine joined the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod the year it was founded, and she was juried in as a signature member that same year. Her pastels have received awards in national competitions. She is a member of 21 in Truro, the Chatham Creative Arts Center, and the Cape Cod Art Association, and she has taught painting classes there. 

She has had several one-woman shows on Cape Cod and in Ithaca, New York.  Saluki clubs nationwide have commissioned her artwork to be used as trophies for their shows.  Although Salukis are her specialty breed, Lorraine has painted other breeds as well.

She has studied with Lois Griffel and Henry Henshe of the Cape School of Art in Provincetown, and she attended the 1987 session of the Vermont Studio School. Her artwork appears in Lois’s book, Painting the Impressionist Landscape.  In 2000, one of her Saluki collages was used on the cover of the Santa Barbara Dog Show Catalog.

Lorraine’s work is displayed on her Web site

www.rataki-salukis-art.com

and at The Wynne-Falconer Gallery in Chatham.

MY ART

The production of my art is a ritual for me. It begins with my selecting the subject matter, then progressing through choice of light effects, time of day, and medium. Sometimes I listen to music while I paint; sometimes I dance; sometimes only absolute silence will do. Whether I am painting a landscape, an animal, or an abstract response, I design the entire surface, interfacing my emotional response with my intellectual knowledge of the subject matter. People who commission my artwork are attracted to the high color that I use in unusual places in my paintings. My choice of color is affected by my inner mood. Specific circumstances in my life directly influence my color palette.  As I paint, I go to another world in my mind; when I have finished the painting, I will often look at it and wonder who painted it?