Lorna is a London-based artist who holds a BA and MA in Fine Art (2020) from Central Saint Martins.

Lorna’s art practice explores painting as a site of experience. She employs optical and compositional elements such as form and colour to express the evocative potential of the tactile, sensual, and physically affective dimensions of perception.

Influenced by diverse ideas from Kantian notions of the Sublime and its echoes throughout 19th-century Romanticism in painting and literature, to Thoreau’s call in Walden for presence and reflection, Lorna attempts to reimagine ideas of the Sublime, opening a space for slowness, attention, and mindful presence, in which perception unfolds through sensation.

Lorna experiments with the concept of 'pentimento’ as a painting tool to reveal process by applying thin layers of oil paint (or collage materials) and then removing them, allowing a strata of marks and pigments to build up and reveal their densities and depths within each painting. The interplay of surface, texture and colour is recorded through gestural marks and compositions as a way of recording or sequencing time and space within each artwork.