Loralee McGuirl is known for expressionist paintings of still life, portraits and for her more recent plaster sculptures of draped figures.

Since early in her career, Loralee has been impressed by the aesthetics of Ancient Greece and the Renaissance.

She traveled through Europe and documented the statuary and embellishments of European monuments, people and landscapes. Loralee accumulated an abundant body of photographs that became the source of new paintings and sculptures.

In her work, Loralee seeks to balance materialism with spiritualism by bringing the gracious elegance of classical art into play. She achieves depth and life in her paintings, busts and sculptures through an abstraction of colour and her treatment of space, light and shape.

Loralee McGuirl studied at McMaster University and graduated with a degree in Art and Music in 2004.