Distant Vineyards, Tuscany Painting

A Boston native, Loretta Feeney was born in 1961. She had the good fortune to have studied oil painting under three of the best American Impressionist painters teaching at the time. First studying with John Terelak at his Gloucester Academy of Art, high overlooking Gloucester Harbor. These first few years emphasized year round painting on location. Then on the Cape, she worked with Hyannisport artist Sam Barber in his light filled studios. Barber introduced Loretta to Hensche of the Cape Cod School of Art School of Art, in Provincetown Henry Hensche educated Feeney to the ways of his teacher, the late Charles Hawthorne. Studying Hawthorne's instructions of one color note against the next. Being simple and true to your subject, creates rich results and trains your mind’s eye. This really resonated for her at the easel. Feeney has won the New York Knickerbocker Gold Medal of Honor, as well as The American Artist Professional League Award, the Sara Boal Memorial Award of the Catherine Lorrillard Wolfe National Exhibition for Women at the National Arts Club, New York, as well as the Grumbacher Gold Medal at the Salmagundi Club's New York exhibition. Feeney is also the first female artist to be honored with a solo show at Boston's prestigious St. Botolph Club. In 2009, Feeney exhibited two oil mono-types, chosen from over four hundred entries at the 20th National Drawing and Print Competitive Exhibition at Maryland's College of Notre Dame. Loretta Feeney's paintings are in major private and corporate collections throughout the United States and Europe. She continues to paint plein air locally, and internationally.