Lady Lori Spencer-Churchill
Biography
Highlights
Artistic
Background
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Lady Lori Spencer-Churchill
Biography
Lady Lori Spencer-Churchill comes from a long line of tradition and very famous lineage. She is a niece to Sir Winston Churchill, painter and statesman, and cousin to the late Princess Diana Spencer, and her son, the future King of England, Prince William.
Lady Lori's father, Sir Michael, has been knighted by both the Queen of England and also by NATO. Sir Michael now works in Hollywood as a producer where he has received several Emmy nominations.
Lady Lori possesses a variety of talents. Her award winning pursuits include the study of medicine, Doctor of Naturopathy, study of human anatomy, and financial stock market interplay.
Her Ladyship personally empathizes with the words of her great uncle, Sir Winston Churchill, when he exclaimed: "I knew everything…yet as every fiber of my being was inflamed to action, then it was that the flame of painting came to my rescue."
It is the realization of this passion that led Lady Lori to her love… the creation of fine art.
Lady Lori's paintings bring both tradition and genius to the painting world. Her intimate knowledge of the molecular bonding of oils and the brilliance of her photographic memory contribute to the priceless creations of her legacy. Her paintings explode with the blending of the Oil & CrystalŽ. Her powerful strokes give the discriminating buyer a never-ending experience. Her creations explore many different subject matters as her artistic visions come to her in the twilight of the dawn, when she wakes to paint with feverish intensity.
In one of her many moments of inspiration, Lady Lori relayed the depth of her passion in the following words: "There is a fine line between pure genius and insanity. Yet in that line there lies an explosion of prismatic images that float between the worlds of thought, premonition and energy. It is this vision that I capture with oil and brush to forever be enjoyed by those of distinguished taste."
Lady
Lori Spencer-Churchill
Highlights
Celebrity Collectors
President Jimmy & Mrs. Roselyn Carter
The late Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales
Doris Day, Actress
Mayor Willie Brown - Current Mayor of San Francisco
Brian Boitano - Olympic Ice Skater
Carlos Santana - Rock Legend
Noteworthy Collectors
Dr. Richard Cristea - Chief of Neurology, Cleveland Institute
Ms. L. Pulitzer, Granddaughter of Joseph Pulitzer, creator of the "Pulitzer
Prize"
Jorge Santana - Musician, Santana Manager, brother of Carlos Santana
Museum Collections
Max Factor Hollywood Museum - Hollywood, CA
Maude Kerns Museum - Eugene, OR
International UFO Museum - Roswell, NM
San Francisco City Hall - San Francisco, CA
The New Orleans Voodoo Museum, New Orleans, LA.
Corporate Collectors
Sutter Corporation - San Diego, CA
Visa International - Fremont, CA
Shows & Exhibits
Eleven Juried Shows throughout the U.S. West Coast
One Woman Show, Beach Street Gallery - San Francisco, CA
One Woman Show, Gallery Concord - Concord, CA
One Woman Show, The Art of High Tea - Sausalito, CA
Direct Influences
Irene Clark
James Gill
Norma Quinlin Spencer
Sir Robert Spencer-Churchill
Val Spindler
Historical Influences
Fredrick Church - Light and Sky
Sir Winston Churchill - Color
Salvadore Dali - Imagery
Edgar Degas - Flow
Thomas Gainsborough - Gesture
Academic & Personal Pursuits
Doctor of Naturopathy, human anatomy, physics, piano, stock market interplay,
world affairs, world religions, mystical studies, science fiction
Lady
Lori Spencer-Churchill
Artistic Background
Lady Lori
had a most unique upbringing with her exposure to the arts beginning at a very
early age. Her young mind was shaped by the artistic creations that surrounded
her, including those of three of her grandparents and her famous grand uncle,
Sir Winston Churchill.
Lori
was raised amidst magnificent works of art, and she fondly remembers many hours
of gazing at wondrous paintings. When other children may have been trying to
stay within the lines of their coloring books, Lori analyzed and attempted to
duplicate, the brushstrokes of the masters.
Both her grandfathers and one of her grandmothers were accomplished artists. Her maternal grandfather created landscapes, Chinese boats, and nudes using oils and pastels. They spent many marvelous hours together, he teaching Lori much about the use of those mediums.
Her grandmother worked on New York City's Madison Avenue and created the famous "E" for the Emporium stores. Her varied career also encompassed designing painted window displays and dress designs for Saks and I. Magnins. Lady Lori remembers Norma Quinlin Spencer as being able to create beauty out of anything, and seemingly out of nothing. Over the years, her grandmother instructed Lori in drawing, fabric painting, oils on canvas, and much more.
Perhaps more than anything else, it was the loving instruction and encouragement of her grandparents that resulted in Lori winning her first art award and a new set of paints at age eight. As an adult, Lori pursued several educational interests, but always the fire to express through the creation of fine art burned within her.
Living in the states, Lori studied with Irene Clark, who was a famous muralist in this country as well as in Europe in the 1960's and 70's. Clark's works graced the walls of many embassies and homes of the royals. Later, Lori studied closely with the internationally known, James Gill, whose flair for creating innovative techniques won him the acknowledgement of being published in five books.
Overlapping periods with her other mentors, for over 20 years, Lori had a friendship and much personal instruction from Val Spindler. A lesser-known Northern California portraitist, Spindler's works captured in oils her subjects' facial expressions with realism and fancifulness.
From her early home environment and her loving grandparents, to her choice of friends and teachers, it appears fate conspired to take Lady Lori along a path shaped and influenced by fine art. She has dedicated the rest of her life not just to retracing the artistic steps of her ancestors and mentors but to generating her own legacy of fine art.