About the Artist

Fine Art

Lorraine Wallace Trenholm was born in New York, where she lived until completing studies as a painting major at Pratt Institute.  She has done drawings and paintings for dog events and people with equine interests since high school. Several of her drawings and pastels have appeared on covers of the Saluki Quarterly, a breed specialty magazine.  Her paintings are in private collections, in the U.S. and abroad.

Lorraine resumed regularly painting and showing in 1984 on Cape Cod, MA.  She creates landscape paintings, inspired by Cape Cod, road trips, and the Southwest. She has also developed a flair for animal artistry, doing pastels, oils and collages of dogs and horses.  She has been juried into the Art Show at the Dog Show in Kansas, several times, and has won awards in oil, pastel, and collage. Lorraine joined the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod the year it was founded, and was juried in as a signature member that same year. Her pastels have received many awards, including BIS, in national competitions. She is a member of “Twenty-one in Truro”, an Associate Member of the Pastel Society of America, has earned Master Pastelist designation with IAPS, and a signature member of both the Pastel Society of Colorado and the Pastel Society of New Mexico.  She has had several one woman shows.  Saluki clubs nation wide have commissioned her to do artwork to be used as trophies for their shows.   In 2000, one of her saluki collages was used on the catalog cover for the prestigious Santa Barbara Dog Show.  Lorraine has studied with Lois Griffel and Henry Henshe of the Cape School of Art in Provincetown and attended the Vermont Studio School.  Her pastels appear in Lois’s book, Painting the Impressionist Landscape, and in Kennedy Publishing’s “Best of America-Pastel Artists and Artisans, Vol. 1”.

Lorraine moved to Colorado in the spring of 2004, where she continues to do both studio and “plein air” painting.  The new house includes a large studio which is a wonderful working and teaching space.  She has continued to return to the Cape to paint and exhibit with “21 in Truro” and has been pursuing her art career in both Colorado and Cape Cod.

Lorraine has been teaching classes and giving workshops in pastel and oil painting in Durango, Pagosa Springs, and Salida, Colorado.  She has continued to show and win awards in National juried shows since the move, including awards at The IAPS International Shows , and  Pastel Society of America’s Enduring Brilliance shows. 

Lorraine’s artwork is displayed on her web site at: http://lorrainetrenholm.net  on Facebook at :   Lorraine Trenholm, Artist, and at her studio by appointment.

“I love experimenting with materials- oriental papers, jewelry findings, pastels, oils, water colors - to create images and light effects in paintings of dogs, horses, and landscapes.”