Loretta Feeney

A Boston native, Loretta Feeney was born in 1961, and spent her childhood on Cape Cod.
     Feeney 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 his mentor Henry Hensche, of the famous Cape Cod School of Art School of Art in Provincetown, where she then studied under his tutelage.
     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.
      Shortly after finishing her formal studies Feeney began selling her paintings and submitting to national competitions with great success. In national exhibitions, 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 was 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. In 2008 Feeney exhibited a major piece in the American Artist Professional League National Exhibition at New York's Samagundi Club.
     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.

     Her mid-Cape studio is in Centerville, where she concentrates on the large urban landscapes, that she is now pleased to exhibit with the Elizabeth Rowley Gallery of Orleans, Massachusetts.