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Lorraine Porter - Ice Skating Girl - Sutro HeightsDescription
Lorraine Porter - Ice Skating Girl - Sutro Heights
Lorraine Porter was born and raised in Chicago, in a family of six girls and a boy. A person who’s always loved to travel, she came to California to visit her sister in San Mateo when she was 16, during the war, and decided to stay.
Her first employment was at J. C. Penney in San Mateo and after moving to San Francisco, she worked 37 years as a payroll clerk at PG&E. She traveled extensively with her husband, a San Francisco Muni employee. Together they took advantage of city-sponsored group tours almost every year, visiting Mexico, Alaska, Spain, Japan, Russia, and the Panama Canal. On their trips, the couple made lasting memories and friendships. Today, her travels finished, she enjoys reading mysteries and romance novels.
Of her art, Lorraine says, “I’ve always scribbled a bit, but never had a chance to really sit down and work at it. It’s a miracle.” Lorraine enjoys painting flowers and buds, because “they’re the most colorful,” but has begun experimenting with portraits and figures – like this one. She likes copying images but changes some aspect of them to make them her own.
