"Rose III" Painting

Sorensen describes her work as “exaggerated realism”, where the colors, scale, contrast and lighting are pushed just beyond reality. Her popular still lifes evoke the beauty of nature, and then heighten it with vibrant colors, brilliant light and dancing shadows. Ora’s laborious method of oil painting uses many layers of thin transparent oil paint to give a deep jewel like glow to the surfaces of the painting’s subject matter. Sorensen was born in New York but grew up overseas in such countries as Libya, Turkey, Iran, Holland and Thailand. Throughout her childhood travels, Ora spent a lot of time drawing and painting and taking workshops from artists all over the world. Ora Sorensen owned a gallery in Delray Beach, Florida for the past 20 years and served on the Board of Directors of The Delray Beach Center for the Arts, The Board of Directors of the Delray Beach Chamber of Commerce, The Executive Board and Board of Directors for the Creative City Collaborative, and on the Public Art Advisory Board of Directors. Her work is in many private collections as well as The Cleveland Clinic and the Intercontinental Hotels. Since 2006, Ora has been a contributing columnist to periodicals for professional artists, such as The Artist’s Magazine, and Professional Artist Magazine.