Lorette C. Luzajic is an award-winning mixed media artist whose works have been collected in at least 40 countries, including America, Canada, Australia, Peru, Estonia, Belgium, France, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Israel, Japan, and more. Corporate collectors include Caseware and the Union Hotel in Toronto. Her work has also appeared on university text book covers, billboards, in real estate stagings, in Hia Magazine (the Egyptian "Vogue") and as a prop on film and television productions. She has shown in galleries,  cultural centres, hotels, banks, laundromats, restaurants, cafes, fairs, and at the Royal Ontario Museum. Her art was featured in a magazine ad campaign for Madrid-based luxury jeweller Carrera y Carrera. It also won a $5000 award from Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment.  She has been an art mentor, a judge in an international arts competition, a jury member for the arts awards of the city of Barrie, and she teaches art making and art history to senior citizens and people with lived experience of mental illness. She is also the founder of The Ekphrastic Academy and teaches art history and creative writing to writers. Lorette has travelled to Mexico and Tunisia to exhibit artwork abroad. She is also a widely published poet and short story writer whose inspiration is most often art history.

Every technical and philosophical facet of my art is committed to the application of mixed media, redefining the term to include concepts and ideas as well as tangible physical materials. This cross-genre pasticcio is born from and dependent on collage, which naturally experiments with subliminality, intercontextuality and the unexpected narratives that emerge from both playful and planned juxtapositions.

Each work is assembled from an unlimited assortment of tools, themes, genres, and inspirations. A work may be created from acrylic paint, gouache, found papers, chalk pastels, oil sticks, wax crayons, graphite, spray paint, poetry, overheard dialogue, religious ritual, music, mythology, television, and etymology.

My expression springs from my insatiable curiousity, bent humour, the intersection of the sacred and inane, and enchantment with the fruits of human innovation and creativity. To this end, an ongoing lifelong study of visual art history, the arts, and the humanities, is essential to my work.

From serene, minimalist abstractions to frantic pentimenti imbroglio, my work embraces appropriation and challenges constructs of genre, colour orthodoxy and technical craftsmanship. But the traditional importance of beauty in millennia of art history is a conviction I share. To obtain beauty in every work, I strive to evoke emotion, achieve mastery of composition, and discover new ways of seeing and defining what is beautiful.