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Artwork by Lorraine Vatcher

Each image may be purchased as a canvas print, framed print, metal print, and more! Every purchase comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

About Lorraine Vatcher

Lorraine Vatcher Lorraine (Gosbee) Vatcher
I don’t remember a time when I was not creating something. At a very early age I used my mother’s and grandmother’s sewing machines. I would watch them for hours as they worked on each of their newest project. Being the oldest of a large family made the prices of fashionable clothing quite prohibitive, however, since necessity is the mother of invention, I soon learned to design and sew many of the latest fashions. I still do. Along with sewing, I nurtured many of the crafts, knitting, embroidery, cross-stitch, needlepoint, etc. Thus the stepping stone to painting.

I prefer not to get stuck in one genre of painting. At any time my favourite painting could be totally different from the one I was working on the previous day and I am usually working on at least two at any time. But that is what an artist is all about...the learning never stops and if I can continue to enjoy the journey, hopefully my paintings will stay fresh and alive!

Photography has always been a hobby for me so I use my own photographs for my paintings and when working on a canvas, I am recalling the sights, smells and the sounds that were surrounding me at that time. These memories help to give life to my work. My father, a self-taught artist, started painting as he approached retirement and now all his children have his works gracing our walls. We are lucky because we are able to see, daily, the memories he created. And Mom’s quilts keep us all warm on cold winter nights so you see that it seemed a natural progression to use a paint brush. It is simply another step in creation .

Although I consider myself self-taught because of the amount of time I paint on my own, I have taken artist courses and workshops with some well-known artists from my area and also completed a two-year course of Graphic Production at the College of the North Atlantic in St John's NL.

For two years, 2007 and 2008, I taught acrylic Painting at the Murray Harbour Community School. Also, I have two tutorials on the internet teaching site, www.artinstructionblog.com. They are "Reflections of Pink and Green" and Nature's Decorations", two still lifes and both are acrylic lessons. I teach Senior's College on Tuesday mornings and I taught at Riverview Manor in Montague through the Leap Program to the residents there. But they taught me much in return!

This year I have been teaching at Michael's in Charlottetown and soon I will be hosting workshops in my home province.

We are located on beautiful Prince Edward Island and situated on the south east coast bordering on the Northumberland Strait. We continually watch the ocean in all its glorious moods and what a treat it is to rise from bed and look onto this mighty and wonderous water in all its ever-changing states!

Although I have a number of paintings in galleries, I still have many paintings in my home so if you would like to look at them in person and you are in the area, please call me and set up an appointment. My telephone number is 902-962-2327 and you can reach me through my email at lorraine@lorrainevatcher.com