Happy Birthday to Me - Lorraine Hollis

This work confronts the raw emotional intensity of childhood without sentimentality. Lorraine uses vulnerable portraiture to examine distress, sensory overwhelm, and the often-unseen realities of neurodivergent experience. Through delicate layering and softened colour, the painting challenges expectations of childhood innocence while holding space for emotional truth and human fragility.. Each artwork is painted on a stretched canvas, float framed in solid Tasmanian Oak. measuring 30x30cm. 
 
Artist Statement - This is for inclusion in the book project should you be selected. We reserve the right to edit this information.Lorraine Hollis is a multidisciplinary artist based in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales. Working across painting and mixed media, her practice explores emotional intensity, memory, and the psychological residue of lived experience. Her work often centres on children and solitary figures, capturing moments of internal tension, withdrawal, and quiet endurance. Drawing from a neurodivergent perspective, Hollis embraces instinctive mark-making, distortion, and layered surfaces to reflect the complexity of internal worlds. She resists polished resolution, allowing ambiguity, imperfection, and sensory weight to remain visible within the work. This approach mirrors an ongoing interest in how emotion is processed, contained, or deferred.
 
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QuirkyCanvasCollective.com