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C.S. Lewis wrote "The longings which arise in us when we first fall in love, or first think of some foreign country, or first take up some subject that excites us, are longings which no marriage, no travel,, no learning, can really satisfy . . . There was something we grasped at, in that first moment of longing, which just fades away in the reality." My art is an attempt to capture those "first moments of longing" and suspend them visually through color, edges, and drawing. It is in those moments that we feel truly alive.
Lani is a native of Colorado now living in Drake, a small town nestled in Big Thompson Canyon just down from Rocky Mountain National Park. Her work is known for simple shapes, values, and brushstrokes, expressing a myriad of subject matter including animals, still lifes, landscapes and figures. Her goal is to evoke an emotional response to a subject reflecting her belief that all things, living and non-living, are equally significant and essential to the whole.
Education:
Colorado State University - Bachelor of Arts in English
Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design - part-time, 4 semesters
Art Student's League of Denver - Monitor for Kim English, 4 years
Loveland Academy of Art - Richard Schmid Painting Group - 6 years
Significant Shows: Heart of the West 2009-2010, Ft. Worth TXSociety of Animal Artists 2010, San Diego, CA
American Art Invitational - December 1, 2007, Saks Gallery, Denver, CO
Governor's Show 1998 - 2008, Loveland Museum, Loveland, CO
Coors Western Art Show, 1996 - 2000, Denver, CO
Greeley Stampede, 2000 - 2007, Greeley, CO
Representing the West 2003 - 2007, Sangre de Cristo Arts Center
Pueblo, CO
Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters 2002 - 2008, Signature Member
Award of Merit 2007, Best Body of Work 2004
Arts for the Parks, Top 100, 1993 - 1997, Judge's Award of Merit 1993
Oil Painters of America, 1997 Portrait Award, Taos, NM
Castles and Clans Show, 2006, Loch Vale Gallery, Estes Park, CO
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