ARTIST LONNI CLARKE' S Biography

ARTIST LONNI CLARKE

"Lonni Clarke, a pre-law history major while at UCLA admitted the dominance of her right brain and went off in pursuit of the Arts immediately after graduating.

She initially worked as a fashion designer in the New York fashion industry, but found fashion illustration more to her liking.

She then began taking painting classes and began drifting away from commercial art and into fine art for gallery sale. During this time she lived in Thousand Oaks, South Pasadena, New York, and Utah, where she still lives.

Lonni paints in the Classical Realist manner, a very traditional, rather Old World approach to painting, and specializes in portraiture, figures, and horses. www.lonniclarke.com

Her work can be seen in the Polo/Ralph Lauren stores in Beverly Hills (The big polo player in the staircase) and New York City (Scattered throughout the store).

Lonni has battled her health most of her life, but seems to be holding her own at the moment, thanks to alternative treatments and witch doctors.

She remains a shrewish spinster with a failing for having too many pets, especially unusually large and exotic ones.

In another place and time she was known simply as "Dog Lady," something that perhaps should not be admitted, but there 'tis!"