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Title
Lonni Clarke Fine Art - Commissioned Oil Portraits and Equine Art
Description
Biography of Classical Realist Painter Lonni Clarke
Lonni Clarke was born on September 7th and began beseeching her parents for a horse a few days later. “I’ll take care of it” were reportedly her first words, but to no avail.
As a child she drew precociously. Her first trip to Europe at age twelve exposed her to the things that would become the great themes of her life – a love of classical arts and of history. If only her parents, notorious non-horse lovers, had hit a few great stud farms on the Grand Tour, the trip would have been truly complete.
Returning, Lonni immersed herself in European art history and discovered a gift for capturing accurate likenesses. Later, as a teenaged tourist in the Louvre, she looked at the paintings, imagined the process of their creation, and felt that its understanding was within her reach. She knew intuitively that she could paint the world around her if she but had a guide. However, the de-emphasis of traditional drawing and painting skills in 1970's college art departments discouraged her from initially pursuing art. Instead Lonni earned a degree in Medieval and Early Modern History from UCLA and planned to attend law school. During her last quarter at UCLA, the superiority and dominance of the right side of her brain became more and more evident. Finally her creative impulses became impossible to ignore and she traded law school for fashion design, earning a degree from New York's Fashion Institute of Technology.
Languages
English
Contact
- Lonnie Clarke Studio
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- St. George Utah
- United States 84790
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- 4356282322
