Loretta Loy Adair - Still Life and Landscapes - Sonoma San Francisco Bay Area California Aritist

    I was born in Oakland, California and have been a Sonoma resident for the past fifteen years.  I am a self-taught oil painter-- to the extent that one is "self-taught". I have been painting for several years and just recently began to exhibit my work.

    I like to focus on still life realism, although I am expanding to portraiture and landscapes. I love the inherent beauty of simple subjects and the play of shadow and light.

    I'm passionate about painting and can appreciate all forms of expression. For me, wrestling with paint is challenging, frustrating, humbling, surprising, and exhilarating.  I'm constantly trying to learn new techniques and to expand myself because the more you think you know, the less you know.

     In fact, I think artists should never be fully satisfied with their work because it only results in complacency. That's what make painting so wonderful. It's always interesting to see what emerges from the blank canvas.

    Painting is a deeply private matter and I've learned that the most important thing is to paint what is true to one's own heart.

I hope you enjoy my paintings.

Loretta Loy-Adair

"In times of adversity is when God's colors shine their brightest"

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12/07/2006