Hi Everyone!

SW Florida based artist Lorrie Bennett is a self-taught, contemporary and expressive mixed-media artist, illustrator, and teacher who has always known, from an early age, that she was an artist. Even though her earlier career was not originally a creative field, artistic endeavors always found its way back into her life, over and over. 

Creating has always been a journey of experimenting and exploration for Lorrie. She is bound by no medium and often paints an assemblage of layers of materials, combining elements of a classical style with expressive storytelling and mark-making. “The excitement is the process of combining paints, drawing, mark-making, and collaging while choosing what to add, to cover up and what to leave untouched,” says Bennett.

Her current works often weave figurative and nature scenes together that create stories of magic and joy. All things nature has always been a huge inspiration for Lorrie and often finds its way onto her canvas. The figurative paintings of women express bold strength and beauty while a gentle kindness emerges. “Something I believe every woman carries inside.”

Lorrie’s artwork has been shown in numerous exhibitions throughout SW Florida and you can find her art in private collections and businesses around the world. She is published in numerous publications including two adult coloring books: “Inkspirations: Fruit of the Spirit” and “Inkspirations: Fruit of the Spirit for Moms.” Her art was also chosen for the cover and inside pages of “The Beauty of Zentangle,” which recognized and presented 137 tangle artists worldwide. In 2018, Lorrie received the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center’s Choice Award for ‘Exhibition: X’ juried show, for her mixed-media painting “The Story of Chromosome X.”