Delightfully Irreverent
by
Lorraine Marcus
27 March 2026
Lorraine Marcus is a woman, a mother, a wife and a widow. She understands that women have a lot to say, and feels a need to embrace this. As such, she shares her experiences through her art. The images depicted are predominantly personal and sometimes abstractly imagined. Her experience of loss has shaped the ideas that she portrays in her art. The expressionist and abstract style of her work presents a rich exploration of texture, as she reveals her experience of colours and movement.
Marcus' portraiture seeks to convey the expressiveness of a face, through its form and character, gestures, movements and emotions. By painting abstractly, she highlights the 'realness' of human experiences and feelings. Some of the themes she has explored in her work include family and maternity, popular culture, and the spaces she has navigated during her travels locally and abroad. Marcus has been significantly influenced by her travels in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Europe, Indonesia and Australia. She found that each of these spaces held their own charm, which evoked emotions in her that she felt driven to share through her art.
Having had a long-term interest in art, Marcus has cultivated her artistic practice under the mentorship of South Africa's leading art teachers and artists including Lynda Ballen and Philippa Kotzen. She spent her formative years working with Gail Machanik and has since spent many years since painting and developing her style. She is currently working closely with Ricky Burnett.
Lorraine Marcus
"Hans Christian Anderson - Emperor's New Clothes - Anderson Protagonist"
Oil on stretched canvas
101.5cm x 76cm
Unframed
R 7 500
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Lorraine Marcus
"Behind the Looking Glass With Alice Depicts Lewis Carroll"
Oil on stretched canvas
101cm x 76cm
Unframed
R 7 500
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Lorraine Marcus
"A Spirit of Rebellion - Women's Journey Through the Ages"
Oil on unstretched canvas
159cm x 101.5cm
Unframed
R 8 000
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Lorraine Marcus
"The Party: Two Dudes and Other Guests. Open to Interpretation"
Oil on stretched canvas
121.5cm x 91.5cm
Unframed
R 8 000
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Lorraine Marcus
"What is All the Fuss About - A Reconstruction of Manet's Picnic on the Grass"
Oil on stretched canvas
76cm x 101.5cm
Unframed
R 7 000
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