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Canadian Abstract Artist

As a contemporary, award-winning artist, Loretta expresses her visions in a spontaneous and direct fashion. Acrylic paint is layered, subtracted and manipulated using palette knives, brushes and scrapers to synthesize an intricate and distinct tableau.

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Colors and shapes take on an energy of their own and each layer she adds reinterprets her thoughts and emotions.

Loretta works with the passion that her motifs, their essence, will stimulate the mind's eye of the observer. 

She is originally from Belleville, Ontario, has lived most of her life in Toronto, and now resides in Cobourg, Ontario with her husband John, also a professional artist.

 

Loretta has been a full-time, freelance artist since 2012, and in that time has established herself as an accomplished contemporary artist with collectors worldwide.

 

As a self-taught painter, Kaltenhauser is fearless and approaches her work with respect but without ceremony. Her vision seems unclouded, uncluttered. Perhaps it's her open attitude that allows her a certain freedom. 

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Over time, but within her own timelines, Kaltenhauser has embraced her abstract style – a style that exudes life and shimmers with colour and textures from the weathered and organic to the sleek and contemporary, and a style that reflects that of an artist who has found her calling.

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EXHIBITIONS :

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~ ' In the Zone ' - Solo online show through ARTWRK INC., 2025

​ â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹~Northumberland Hills Studio Tour - 2025,2024,2021

​~Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg - 2024, 2023, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016
~The Federation of Canadian Artists LIMITLESS Exhibition - 2024,2023, 2022, 2019
~Color and Form Society - 2021
~Ontario Society of Artists - 2021, 2015, 2014
~'From Women's Eye' Virtual Art Exhibition hosted by The Kefi Art Gallery - 2021
~Society of Canadian Artists - 2021, 2020, 2018
~Mother Earth Solo Virtual Art Exhibition - 2020
~The Artist Project, Toronto - 2019,2018,2017
~The Riverdale Artwalk, Toronto - 2019, 2018,2017,2016
~OAA Art Exhibition, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa - 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016
~Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, City Hall, Toronto - 2018
~Visual Arts Centre of Clarington - 2017, 2016, 2014

~Solo Show at Impresario Market Gallery, Cobourg  2014

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PRINT , TV & ONLINE:

2023 - Featured artist in the March issue of

Photographize Magazine.

2022 -' Best 100 Artists ' Annual Book of

Photographize.

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2020 - Featured on Stella's Studio on Camoes TV

2020 - Featured in Watershed Magazine

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AWARDS:

2019 - Award for Juror's Choice 2nd for The Art Gallery of Northumberland's 41st Juried Exhibition.

2017 - Award for the Derivative Abstract Category and the Award for the Imaginative Abstract Category at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery 50th Anniversary.

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I absolutely love it when clients send me their install photos.

Here is " Bridging the Gap " 48 x 48 inches in its' new home in California. Thanks so much to Karen and Ken and enjoy !

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