Lorraine Lewitzka
Lorraine Lewitzka Born: South Australia 1952
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Lorraine Lewitzka was born in 1952 and spent her adult life in the commercial art field as a fashion and illustrative artist in black and white, after a childhood of constant observation, drawing and painting, influenced by other artists in the family.
In 1986, with encouragement from her husband Terry, Lorraine explored the medium of water-colour with tutors Majorie Hann and Rupert Richardson of N.S.W. In 1988 she was accepted as Fellow of the Royal Australian Society of Arts and exhibited in a few private and mixed exhibitions.
A significant turning point for Lorraine’s art education came in 1990 when she won the Thomas Laird Memorial Art Award at the Victor Harbor Rotary Art Show. As a result of this, she was tutored by four distinguished watercolourist in the U.S.A. and continued her study at the Slade School of Art, London discovering the new medium of oils in life painting.
Since returning, Lorraine was guest artist at the 1991 Victor Harbor Rotary Art Show and in August of the same year, participated in her first two man exhibition at the Barry Newton Gallery, Unley Road. Lorraine has also participated in exhibitions at Studio Z, Burnside; John Dunn Gallery, Bridgwater; The Barn, McLaren Vale, and submitted a watercolour self-portrait to the National Doug Moran and Portia Geach Portrait Competitions. Over the year, Lorraine has always endeavoured to produce work of substance, giving the viewer opportunity to grow with and into the painting.
With good draughtsmanship the goal, the line, mainly through contour drawing gives the work a solid base, expressed further by the effects and different play of light coupled with chasing of mood and atmosphere. Much preparation goes into her final pieces of art.
Lorraine, at present, concentrates on traditional and contemporary still life, figurative subjects, and landscapes, oil interiors and commissioned portraits. Lorraine teaches drawing and watercolour at the Telegraph Station Art Studio in Victor Harbor where she lives and works alongside her husband Terry.
Major Awards & Prizes
1990 Thomas Laird Travelling Award Victor Harbor
1995 1st Prize Port Adelaide
1998 2nd Overall Prize of Victor Harbor
1998 Silver Award Berwick Victoria
2000 2nd Prize watercolour, Victor Harbor
2001 1st Prize watercolour, Box Hill, Victoria
2001 2nd Prize, Australian Artist Magazine
2003 Eckersley Art Prize
1990-2005
Over 30 first prizes. Over 15 second prizes. Over 23 highly commended awards.
2005
Deniliqium Best Painting, 1st Prize, Watercolour
Drysdale Best Water colour
Warrandyte 2nd Prize
King Vally 1st Prize, Watercolour
Mountview 1st Prize, Watercolour
Leopold Best Watercolour
4 Highly Commended
2006
Drysdale Best Painting, Best Watercolour
Warrandyte 3rd Prize
Cobram Best Watercolour
knox Best Watercolour
Campberwell Highly Commended, Oil
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Lewitzka Art Studios Telegraph Station
Cnr Coral St. & Railway Tce. Victor Harbor SA 5211
PH: (08) 8552 1865 A/H: (08) 8552 2602
email: lorrlew@hotmail.com
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