Maureen Loughran
Maureen's love of painting has been life long. Taught by nuns in primary school, she always looked forward to Friday afternoon's art class. Dabbling in her teens, then busy raising two daughters in her twenties, it wasn't until her early thirties that the passion for painting began in earnest.
Attending a summer school in 1981,82 & 83 with artist/teacher Colin Johnson, Maureen also attended regular oil painting classes with the late Lance Sullivan of Korumburra.
The challenge of watercolour led her to Emerald artist Ron Carter Green for more classes.
In the late 1980s and 90s Maureen Loughran was a member of the Gippsland 8, a group of artists from various parts of Gippsland who exhibited throughout Victoria and New South Wales twice a year, holding 18-20 exhibitions in all.
Many more workshops have followed since, including two trips to Greece in 2000 and Italy in 2002, which she regards as different but wonderful experiences.
A member for many years of the Victorian Artists Society, Australian Guild of Realist Artists, Sherbrooke Art Society and the Bass Coast Artists Society, she has won numerous awards, and her paintings hang in private collections in Australia and overseas.
Maureen Loughran states her inspiration is drawn from nature, and her paintings capture the varied and wondrous moods of the land and sea, where she lives at Cape Paterson.