Loretta received her training in drawing and painting at Brentwood Art Center from 1996 to 2002, Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Arts from 2007 to 2009, The Animation Guild in Los Angeles from 2009 to 2012, University of California, Los Angeles from 2004 – 2005 and Getty Center Los Angeles in 2008.  She also studied drawing and painting with Regina Lubovnaya from 2001 to 2005, and participated in drawing and painting workshop programs with David Loeffel, Scott Christiansen, Henry Yan, Sherry McGraw and Jeffrey Hein.  Her knowledge of textiles comes from a lifetime of working creatively and practically with those materials.

She has presented her works in several shows over many years at the Brentwood Art Center, in a group show in 2011 Pacific Palisades, California and in a group show in Venice, California.  In addition she has had numerous showings for private collectors.

For Loretta making art is a process of experimentation and the freedom that brings to her work.   She almost always begins with a clear image, and sometimes that clarity remains. But often she tries to lose that clarity by changing the image with different materials and colors, finding a new statement of the original.  Coming to that new statement gives her the truest sense of her expression.

Her dimensional figurative images are presented in textiles and paint, often using burlap stitched to linen.  The diffuse and impressionistically soft faces of her subjects combined with a seeming unfinished quality of stitching and flowing fabric evoke deep and powerful emotions.