Lorraine Lans paints the Maine coast en plein air in the Impressionist tradition. She studied with master Impressionist painter Henry Hensche at the Cape School of Art in Provincetown, Mass. and at the Fenway Studios, Boston. Originally from Massachusetts, Lans has lived in Maine for over fifteen years painting landscapes on Monhegan Island, Acadia and in the fishing village of Stonington.

Her many awards and exhibitions include top prize at the prestigious Academic Artist’s Association’s 57^th national exhibition in 2007, national juried shows at the Salmagundi Club, NY, the Ventura County Maritime Museum, CA, the Boston Athenaeum, the "Salon International 2004" a 2005 exhibition at Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Art in San Antonio, Texas, where art is chosen for excellence in realism. She was awarded a residency at Acadia National Park and her work has been selected to hang in the Governor's Mansion in Augusta, ME. Her work is published in the volume A Gallery of Marine Art and she has been featured in articles in the Cape Cod Review, Ellsworth American, Waterville Sentinel and Manchester Journal.

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