Loretta Kaltenhauser

As a contemporary, award-winning artist, Loretta expresses her visions in a spontaneous and direct fashion. Acrylic paint is layered, subtracted and manipulated using palette knives, brushes and scrapers to synthesize an intricate and distinct tableau. Colors and shapes take on an energy of their own and each layer of texture and color she adds reinterprets her thoughts and emotions. Loretta works with the passion that her motifs, their essence, will stimulate the mind's eye of the observer. Loretta has now been creating full time for the last twelve years, and in that time has established herself as an accomplished contemporary artist with collectors in Canada, the United States, Europe, the U.K. and Taiwan. As a self-taught artist, Kaltenhauser is fearless and approaches her work with respect but without ceremony. Her vision seems unclouded, uncluttered. Perhaps it's her open attitude that allows her a certain freedom. Over time, but within her own timelines, Kaltenhauser has embraced her abstract style – a style that exudes life and shimmers with color and textures from the weathered and organic to the sleek and contemporary, and a style that reflects that of an artist who has found her calling.

The Federation of Canadian Artists LIMITLESS Exhibition - 2023, 2022, 2019 Colour and Form Society - 2021 Ontario Society of Artists - 2021, 2015, 2014 'From Women's Eye' Virtual Art Exhibition hosted by The Kefi Art Gallery - 2021 Society of Canadian Artists - 2021, 2020, 2018 Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg - 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016 Mother Earth Virtual Art Exhibition ( Solo ) - 2020 The Artist Project, Toronto - 2019,2018,2017 The Riverdale Artwalk, Toronto - 2019, 2018,2017,2016 OAA Art Exhibition, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa - 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, City Hall, Toronto - 2018 Visual Arts Centre of Clarington - 2017, 2016, 2014 PRINT , TV & ONLINE: 2023 - Featured artist in the March issue of Photographize Magazine. 2022 -' Best 100 Artists ' Annual Book of Photographize. 2020 - Featured on Stella's Studio on Camoes TV 2020 - Featured in Watershed Magazine

Self-taught