KIRIN, Lorna

1967 - ?

As Lorna Susan Best, she was born at Sutton, Surrey in 1967. Lorna studied on a foundation course at Wimbledon School of Art in 1985 and at Northeast London Polytechnic, now the University of East London, 1986-1989 taking a B.A. (hons) in Fine Art. She married in 1992 Nicholas Holdcroft working as Lorna Holdcroft and secondly one of her fellow students Stephen Kirin whom she married in 2016 and now works as Lorna Kirin. Her paintings explore the beauty of the landscape and the sea, being drawn to the wonderfully organic forms and textures that nature provides. Lorna works with acrylic paint to canvas, with bold washes and thick textured marks evoking a real sense of immediacy and excitement, seeking to capture that first glimpse of a stunning view and to impart that feeling of awe to the viewer. Lorna has exhibited at Affordable Art Fair, Battersea; Athenaeum Apex Gallery, Bury St Edmund's; Royal Society of Marine Artists and elsewhere, Lorna also works collaboratively with her husband and has exhibited at Angle Gallery, Bury St Edmund's; Store Street Gallery, London, AKA Contemporary, 54a Cherry Hinton Road, Cambridge and elsewhere and is represented by London Contemporary Art, 7 Denbigh Street, Pimlico. The Kirins are members of the Suffolk Open Studios from The Old Workshop, Hengrave, Bury St Edmund's, Suffolk.
Website: https://lornakirin.com
Website: http://www.thekirins.com

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