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 material object and a site of experience, within an expanded notion of contemporary painting. She employs optical and compositional elements such as form, colour and composition 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, (his ‘Third Critique’, 1790) and its echoes throughout 19th Century Romanticism in painting and literature, to the essays of Harold Rosenberg (1952) which explore painting as an existential spectacle of gesture and presence, Lorna’s work engages the drama of colour and form whilst shifting focus towards intimacy and material presence.

Drawing on Thoreou’s call in Walden (1854) 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.