Lori's most recognized paintings are in oil, although she enjoys working other mediums as well. Her award-winning works are a demonstration of intelligent design, confident brushwork, and masterful color. Her subject matter can be anything. "Seemingly ordinary moments and objects become meaningful when you express their beauty." Lori says every work is like a "time capsule," stating, "It's about interpreting a moment, painting from life, capturing the light's effects, and translating all of that to the canvas for others to experience."

She is a member of, and has exhibited with, many respected, professional organizations including the national and the eastern regional juried exhibitions of the Oil Painters of America, and the prestigious Salmagundi Club Non-Member Exhibition in New York City. She is also an active participant in The Chestnut Group, Landscape Artists International, and the Southern Artist Registry. In 2008, Lori was awarded Signature Member status in International Plein Air Painters, a highly regarded, worldwide, plein air painting organization. She has participated in several juried and invitational plein air events across the country, and recently won both the Artist's Choice and the Public's Choice Awards during the Wyoming Plein Air Festival, and an Honorable Mention in the Florida's Forgotten Coast Plein Air Invitational. Her work is in the permanent collection at The Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland, in private collections and galleries worldwide. Lori's paintings were featured in a recently published book entitled, Painting North Carolina: Impressions in Plein Air, and in the "Artist Focus" section of the August 2009 issue of American Art Collector Magazine.

Although Lori has an interest in art since she was very young, she considers herself self-taught, having studied independently as an adult with some of the nation's best painters. Scott Christensen, Michael Shane Neal, Jason Saunders, and Quang Ho are among her most influential teachers. While it is Lori's hard work that has made her part of an elite group of world-class artists, she credits her love of learning and dedication to the challenge, to her friend, mentor, and accomplished artist, Dawn Whitelaw. Lori finds it both a joy and a privilege to share her knowledge and talent with students through plein air and studio workshops across the United States and abroad.

In 2008 and 2009, Lori traveled to Italy for more than seven months. With the sole intention of study, and growth, during this time she painted more than 200 pieces from the southeastern Adriatic coastline to the northeastern Italian Riviera and many towns in between. Her intense work during this period brought a greater maturity to the paintings she creates today.