Lorie Batson
Lorie Merfeld-Batson grew up in Illinois and began studying art at a young age, apprenticing under nationally known oil painter Gerald Merfeld, then taking classes at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and the Palette and Chisel. Her love of the landscape has roots in the creeks and fields she grew up with in rural Illinois where she dreamed of having her own horse; and now living in southern Colorado with her family she regularly paints plein air and travels by horseback into the mountains to gather material for painting.
Affiliations include the Plein Air Artists of Colorado ( Signature member), Plein Air Painters of New Mexico, American Impressionist Society, and a founding member of the Sangres Art Guild. Lorie is also involved in several plein air art groups and has been invited to numerous National and Invitational Shows. She paints in oils and pastels and occasionally watercolors and finds that switching mediums keeps a freshness in her approach to creativity . She is represented by Heritage Fine Arts, Taos, NM.,Brookwood Gallery, Westcliffe, CO., The Grapevine Gallery, OKC, OK .
"Art is a lifelong learning process and each blank piece of paper or canvas is an exciting new possibility!"
Biography
Lorie Merfeld-Batson grew up in Illinois and began studying art at a young age, apprenticing under nationally known oil painter Gerald Merfeld, then taking classes at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and the Palette and Chisel. Her love of the landscape has roots in the creeks and fields she grew up with in rural Illinois where she dreamed of having her own horse; and now living in southern Colorado with her family she regularly paints plein air and travels by horseback into the mountains to gather material for painting.
Affiliations include the Plein Air Artists of Colorado ( Signature member), Plein Air Painters of New Mexico, American Impressionist Society, and a founding member of the Sangres Art Guild. Lorie is also involved in several plein air art groups and has been invited to numerous National and Invitational Shows. She paints in oils and pastels and occasionally watercolors and finds that switching mediums keeps a freshness in her approach to creativity . She is represented by Heritage Fine Arts, Taos, NM.,Brookwood Gallery, Westcliffe, CO., The Grapevine Gallery, OKC, OK .
“Art is a lifelong learning process and each blank piece of paper or canvas is an exciting new possibility!”