Bewildered!

A new work ...

Bewildered!

Lorraine Marcus
Oils on board

Room with a view

Lorraine Marcus, 2001.

Oils on canvas

Pedi Lady

Oil on Canvas

The Pedi Lady is a portrait of a DRC woman living in South Africa. The painting is full of the images of Africa - space, desert ...

Works in progress

The studio! Another work in progress by Lorraine Marcus

Zahava's

Art by Lorraine Marcus on exhibition ...

Zahava's Restaurant and Gallery.

47 Grant Avenue,

Johannesburg

Someone I could know

2008



Oil on canvas

Township Jazz

Oils on canvas
Lorraine's impression of township music in the South Africa of the 1950's

Cocaine Lil

Pastels on Paper

This expressionistic painting was inspired by an anonymous poem "Cocaine Lil". The work contains some of the powerful imagery contained in the poem.

cocaine lil

did you ever hear about cocaine lil,
she lived in cocainetown on a cocaine hill,
she had a cocaine dog and a cocaine cat,
and they fought all night with a cocaine rat,
she had cocaine on her cocaine head,
a cocaine dress that was poppy red,
she wore a snowbird hat and sleighride clothes,
on her coat a crimson cocaine rose,
big red chariots on the milky way,
snakes and elephants, silver and grey,
oh the cocaine blues they make me sad,
oh the cocaine blues they make me feel so bad,
she went to a party one cold night,
the way she sniffed was sure a fright,
there was morphine sue and the poppyfaced kid
climbing up snow ladders and down they slid,
along in the morning about half passed three
they were all lit up like a christmas tree,
when she got home and started for bed,
she took another sniff and it knocked her dead,
they laid her out in her cocaine clothes
she wore a snowbird hat and a crimson rose,
on her headstone you'll find this refrain...
"she died as she lived sniffing cocaine"

A room with a view

Oil on canvas

2003

R2995

Brugel Revisited

Oil Pastels on Paper

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An abstract expressionistic piece inspired by a combination of photo's of women and other images.

Water Babies

Oil on board

Childhood impressions of Charles Kingsley's "The Water Babies" provided the inspiration for this work. The painting is rich with abstract and fantasy images.

Gauteng Folly

Oil on Canvas.

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Fat and Sexy! One of Lorraine's classics and a favourite!