Lorene spent her early years on a farm near Palmer, South Australia, playing with the many farm animals and always dreaming of horses. Throughout her school years, she was known to be the ‘arty one who draws horses’ as she would sketch them endlessly. When her year 12 final art project challenged her to change her style to meet required marking criteria, her joy faded. Her subsequent acceptance into Graphic Arts proved disillusioning, and she stopped creating. Despite some sporadic sketching over the years, she set her art aside.

It was in 2021, while adjusting to life in Australia after having spent many years as a Christian cross-cultural worker with Wycliffe Bible Translators Australia in Papua New Guinea (PNG), that Lorene began to paint. It was as though she had ‘come home.’ Painting resonated with her, and became her passion. She found joy in returning to what she loved as a child— spending time glorying in the beauty of horses— and decided to devote her free time to practicing and growing in her artistic journey.

Based in Murray Bridge with her husband, Mark, Lorene has come home to the land, sights and smells that first inspired her to create when she was a child.

An avid traditional realist painter, Lorene loves to immerse in, and share with others, the beauty of the people and animals of God’s creation – especially horses! Her paintings depict what she loves most.