Artist Profile

"Co. Donegal Shepard, Tory in fields of Castle Doe"
11X7 inches

"So You Do Exist!"
24X18 inches

Lorna is not only the founder but a favorite segment at
Ekphrasis: Poetry, Music & Dance Inspired by Visual Art - this year, "So You Do Exist" will be featured

Lorna Morris Cyr as an artist has used many different mediums, but prefers working with oil paints. Her work has appeared in galleries from Maine to Florida. She has been a member of art leagues from Connecticut to Florida, serving on the Board of Directors of the St. Petersburg’s Art League as an active participate in mall shows. She has served on the Board of Directors of Oil Drum Art and was selected to be one of the artists to appear on Fox News and CBS (“The Early Show”) in New York City and Fox News 5 with her Oil Drum Art work. The galleries she has enjoyed showing her work in are Aetna Art, Hartford Buttonwood Tree House, Middletown, ArtWell Gallery, Torrington, ArtSpace Hartford, Open Studio Hartford, National Arts Program, Hartford and UCONN Health Celeste LeWitt Gallery, (one woman show), Farmington.

As part of Open Studio Hartford, Lorna began the Ekphrasis Event at the ArtSpace Hartford Gallery. Since 2005 poets, musicians, all performing artist have chosen a work of an artist and rendered an interpretation of the work. She, herself, is a well published poet and served on the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Poetry Society for over 12 years as the publicist. As President of the Bristol Chapter of the Connecticut Poetry Society she actively pursued young poets to start writing careers.

Lorna is currently retired from a career in Broadcast/Newprint Media, she was the first female graduate of The Connecticut School of Broadcasting back in 1969. Her career has spanned, WHNB-TV 30, (NBC) United Cable Television and ESPN. She is active volunteer in public relations for several non-profit organizations.

She resides in Bristol, CT with her husband George and they both enjoy traveling and being grandparents to two beautiful children. Her lifetime love and ownership of horses continues to keep her busy at two stables today.

Commission work accepted. Great with horses. Aliens and animals. 

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