Louise
DeMore
A magazine article in Reader’s Digest about a
man suddenly going blind opened Louise DeMore’s eyes.
Drawn to art since her childhood days in Colorado,
DeMore (b 1939) brought the artistic instinct with her when her parents
moved to Los Angeles in 1949. Rather that an art degree, however, she
graduated from California State University, Los Angeles, with a degree
in math. It wasn’t until 1973 when the magazine article made her think
about blindness, that she concluded that “seeing” and sharing her
visions was what she really wanted to do.
When DeMore first started painting she often used
her children as models. That led to more art classes and intensive
workshops in Idaho with Sergei Bongart. Local exhibits and various
regional and national competitions followed.
Among her memberships she prizes the Knickerbocker
Artists, New York, NY, and the Western Academy of Western Artists. Other
exhibition opportunities have included the Catherine Lorrillard Wolfe
Art Club, New York, the California Art Club, the Oil Painters of America
and the Plein Air Painters of America.
Along the way, DeMore relocated in Los Osos, a
small speck of a California costal town midway between Los Angles and
San Francisco. Her studio is ideally located in the shadow of the vast
Montana de Oro State Park, a blend of rugged coastline and spectacular
golden hills that have inspired many of her paintings.
Only one thing seems to lure DeMore away from
painting: a PiperArcher singleengine airplane. She took up flying more
than a decade ago, in search of a new challenge. Reluctant at first,
DeMore is now and avid pilot that flies herself to various shows and
conferences throughout the West.
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