“Ephemeral effects perceived in nature, brought on by a confluence of light, humidity and time of day or season are evoked in a series of landscapes that call to mind a range of remembered sensations in the viewer:  a storm rips across a marsh, a humid day turns to thunder.  Like the haze that surrounds distant memories of childhood’s summers, these paintings, with saturated color, speak to our inevitable emotional response to natural phenomena.  Real places and actual moments serve as touchstones for these works that share a fascination with the often indefinite and mutable effects of sea, sky and marsh.”

An article published in the Provincetown Banner states, “La Pointe’s paintings are heavy with the presentiment of approaching storms or extreme event that exist in arrested time.  If you were to sleepwalk along the cove, this is what it might look like.”

Lorrie comments on her approach to painting: “I am captivated by the fleeting effects of the atmosphere on nature.  I try to reveal a fragile instant of either quiet equilibrium of violent tension between and earth and sky.  I am inspired more by the emotion that the landscape evokes than by the specifics of the site.  My compositions emphasize the the mood and temperature, serving as a stage on which Mother Nature may give a dramatic performance.”