Lorraine Vail is an artist based in California. She holds a bachelor of fine arts degree in Illustration from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. After graduation, she worked as a freelance sculptor and illustrator primarily in Philadelphia and New York. He has been exceedingly active as an artist, and his more than 20 year’s history of public sculpture commissions has made his work to be found in a number of private and public collections in California as well as abroad, where several distinguished hotels have installed her sculptures and fountains. Lorraine has been honored with numerous of group and solo exhibitions and her works have appeared in a variety of venues from museums and galleries to universities and corporations. Lorraine’s sculptures have also appeared in exhibits at Temple University, PA.
The sculptures are part of the permanent collections of the Berman Museum in PA and the Blackhawk Automotive Museum in CA. three of his public sculptures are part of the sites listed on the National Museum of Women in the Arts tour in the Washington, D.C. area. She describes the process of bringing an artistic idea to life as being similar to dreaming. Usually an idea will form in her mind, and it’s completely visual— she doesn’t immediately know the meaning behind it or its significance. She says that explaining that is not easy until that vision is transferred onto material form. That’s when she begins to understand what it’s all about. She adds that it’s just like recalling a dream and suddenly remembering what is was all about.
