Lorraine Jeffery currently works as a Graphic Design Coordinator for the Alberta Government. Lorraine at her current job has had the opportunity to paint e-cards for the web, watercolour of the Life cycle of the rainbow trout, historical buildings, and cartoon caricature for retirements and special occasions. She also creates logos, t-shirt and designs along with technical illustrations.

Lorraine took her first oil painting class in grade 5 and was hooked. After graduating in commercial arts at Selkirk College Lorraine embarked on a brief career in print layout and design, Lorraine soon decided to venture out in the drafting field in which she stayed employed in for 20 years, eventually backtracking to graphics and design. While in the drafting field Lorraine painted artist renderings in gouache for projects like Oldman River Dam (published as artist rendering in the Alberta Report), Paddle River Dam, St. Mary’s Dam and Headwork systems from the engineered drawings previous to the construction.

Lorraine works in mediums of watercolours, gouache, and oils expressing her emotions on paper or canvas with a spontaneous free flowing style that she labels as impressionistic art. “I was always aware of colour and simplicity, I love to capture all the necessary details with minimal strokes of paint arriving to a finished product having it all while retaining it’s simplicity in form and colour.”

View Lorraine’s work in her range of mediums and you will notice her love of the mountains and water including some structured forms. As a kid she was always in awe with the mountains.

Over the years Lorraine’s paintings have found a few homes including a large oil mountain scene bought for the Misericordia hospital, geriatric rehab unit. She has done some commissioned work hanging in people’s homes such as “View across Crimson Lake towards Rocky Mountains”, also printed on the cover of Fish Facts published by Voyageur publications, in 1995). Lorraine has exhibited at Johnson gallery, Misericordia, Manulife Place and St. Albert Profiles gallery, Craft and Church shows. “ It is a reward when another person experiences the joy of displaying your work.”

Her motto: “ paint with pleasure and passion” while defining confidence.
Lorraine first joined the Edmonton Art Club in 1990, she moved to St. Albert in 1992 to join the St. Albert’s painter guild. Upon moving back to Edmonton in 2001 Lorraine rejoined the Edmonton Art Club, that she values with pride.

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Maligne Lake
oil on canvas
16x20

Birch in the Pond
Oil on canvas
16x20