Lois Lanier

As a child, I loved to draw and looked forward to getting a new box of crayons at the start of each school year. My fourth grade teacher entered one of my drawings in a city wide art contest in Mobile, Alabama and I won second place for my age group. In high school, my drawing of the mascot for a new high school was voted by the student body to become the official logo.

While pursuing an associate degree in accounting in Anchorage, Alaska, I was able to take one art course. It was drawing, naturally, and my professor entered two of her student’s pastels into the college annual art sale. Mine was one and it sold.  That was my first sale! 

My art focus during my adult life, however, was sewing. I taught myself how to sew and while traveling around with my Air Force husband, I made drapes and curtains for seven houses and apartments and clothes for my daughter and myself.  I learned to quilt from books and made queen size quilts and many wall hangings. Taking care of my two special needs children filled the majority of my time. 

I returned to art in 2004, taking art classes with the city of Aurora.  In 2008, I joined the Park Hill Art Club where I have taken classes and workshops while selling my work through their biannual art shows. I also participated in the Mask Project.  I painted with watercolors, but in 2010, I took an oil workshop through Abend Art Gallery and have enjoyed painting in oil since then. In 2016, I achieved Signature Status with the Colorado Water Color Society. 

Juried Shows

2011    Gateway to the Rockies

2012   Smoky Hill Library Gallery One Person Show

2012   Gateway to the Rockies, Honorable Mention

2014   Colorado State Watercolor Society

2014   National Greeley Art Show

2014   Co-Art Gallery Jury Show

2014 Gateway to the Rockies

2015   Colorado Watercolor Society, State Show

2015   Art From the Heart Show, 3rd Place Oil

2015   Colorado Visions

2016   Colorado Water Color Society New Trends Show

2016   Art From the Heart Show, 3rd place Oil

2016   Gateway to the Rockies

2017 Busted elbow and frozen shoulder

2018 Art From the Heart Show, HM oil, HM watercolor

2018 Colorado Water Color Society Members Show

2019 Art From the Heart Show, HM Watercolor, 2nd place Oil

2019 Gateway to the Rockies. HM Watercolor