Award-winning artist Lori Anne Boocks enjoyed a nature-filled childhood and recently moved to the Catskill mountains in Upstate New York to be closer to the outdoors again.

 

Lori Anne earned a BFA from Old Dominion University in 1992. Her work is included in private collections in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Paris, and the Metro DC area, and in corporate collections in Washington, DC and Australia. She is an advocate for the role of art in healing and facilitating deeper human experiences.

 

In 2017, Lori Anne participated as an artist-researcher through Georgetown University and the Institute for Integrative Health to explore the role of art in supporting pediatric patients with serious health conditions to feel better understood during their long-term hospital and chronic illness experiences. The resulting work from this project has been exhibited at the 2018 Association of Child Life Professionals Conference, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Children’s National Hospital, the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and the National Institutes of Health.

 

Lori Anne paints in her mountain-facing studio in Roxbury. An avid birder, she is deeply grateful for the opportunity to translate her passion for the outside world into art that brings joy and a deeper understanding of the natural world around us.