Loretta Linza has lived in Arizona for more than 26 years, but is originally from Niagara Falls, New York. She loved art from her childhood and began illustrating architecture and nature from the age of nine. Loretta holds associate degrees in both commercial design and fine art painting. She considers her artistic influencers to be Alma-Tadema, Wayne Thibault, Rene Magritte, Paul Cezanne, and Bougereau. Loving art from a young age made her to know quite a number of leading artists who also influenced her work. She liked to surround her self with people who could add value to her work. Loretta also gets her inspiration from both the outer world and the materials she uses to recreate it. She’s an artist who’s opinionated, passionate and focused on almost every detail of the world. That’s why she’s able to pick little details that can be ignored by many.
Her keenness to detail makes her to produce art that looks real and attractive. Being a self-described plant nerd she likes to interpret the more unanticipated species of plants as opposed to the garden variety. Loretta doesn’t want to limit herself to the known and obvious; she’s always experimenting and exploring new ways to keep her art ahead of others. She has therefore developed her own unique style of presenting her work which sometimes manifests itself as painterly realism and sometimes as abstract simplicity. She produces her art in a variety of finishing options, and this has worked to her advantage since it has increased the collectability of her art.
