Growing up in East Manchester, life wasn’t always easy for Lorna. ‘My family was small and we went through some tough times, especially as my mum was a single parent left to bring up two girls alone’ she tells me. ‘I feel perhaps this is the initial source of the darker aspects of my work’. This ‘work’, of course, is her artwork, something which acted as a great form of escapism for Lorna during her childhood and adolescence. ‘I would spend hours just wrapped-up in my own subconscious mind, allowing things to escape from there onto paper’ she says. ‘I was always drawn to Surrealism... I love how it’s not about making something look life-like but more about using the unconscious mind to replicate what we observe.
In this regard, Dali [the guy who painted the man wearing a bowler hat and who has an apple covering his face] was a huge inspiration, I appreciated the way his work intertwined dreams with reality and the layers within his pieces really struck a chord... I would copy Dali’s works as much as I could and try to unpick all the hidden details, symbols and messages within them’. Over the years, as we’ll uncover, Lorna has continued to develop upon her skills with both a paintbrush and her knowledge of the world to formulate her very own style of surrealism and one that’s filled with a plethora of themes - from concepts of beauty and motherhood to horror and spiritualism.
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