Lenore "Lori" McNamara (born April 30, 1952) is an artist in

Fort Pierce Fort Pierce is a city in and the county seat of St. Lucie County, Florida, United States. The city is part of the Treasure Coast region of Florida’s Atlantic Coast. It is also known as the Sunrise City. Per the 2020 United States census, 2020 ...

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. She works

en plein air ''En plein air'' (; French language, French for 'outdoors'), or plein-air painting, is the act of painting outdoors. This method contrasts with studio painting or academic rules that might create a predetermined look. The theory of 'En plein ai ...

and paints in an

Impressionist Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...

style. Her work has been featured in several galleries, especially in the A. E. Backus Gallery & Museum in Fort Pierce, and it is currently on display in her studio at the ArtBank, also in Fort Pierce. McNamara is best known for her landscapes, which depict natural Florida environments, executed with a bold

impasto Impasto is a technique used in painting, where paint is laid on an area of the surface thickly, usually thick enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible. Paint can also be mixed right on the canvas. When dry, impasto provides tex ...

technique. She is a highly prolific artist, and has published over 1,000 of her paintings on the Daily Painters Art Gallery website. She is currently the leader of the Plein Air Painters of the Treasure Coast. In 2005 McNamara published an article in ''

Plein Air Magazine Plein is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Wittlich-La ...

'' about the history of this organization. A native of Fort Pierce, Florida, McNamara has painted since childhood, when she received a few lessons from A.E. Backus.

References

External links

Lori's Stormy Art and Daily Paintings
- Lori McNamara's blog
Artist Profile at DailyPainters.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:McNamara, Lori 1952 births Living people People from Fort Pierce, Florida American contemporary artists Artists from Florida