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About Lorette

Lorette cannot remember a time when she didn’t paint, make cards or ‘write’ books – but she did follow a different career path in early adult life.

She did attend a five day watercolour workshop run by The Chelsea Physic Garden, which has held a range of amazing plants since its beginning in 1673. Apart from that course, Lorette has had no formal training – just a lot of practice!

Travelling and living abroad for many years, Lorette developed her skills of sketching and researching local customs and curiosities.

She also edited and illustrated a monthly ‘site magazine’ whilst living in Construction Villages in South Africa and Saudi Arabia.

Such was the amount of her travelling, sketching and painting that quite naturally Lorette was inspired and indeed encouraged to exhibit her work wherever she went.

Lorette E. Roberts is a well-known in Asia for her ‘bestseller’ sketchbooks on Hong Kong, China, and Singapore. She is particularly respected for the way she captures the ‘raw face’ of her subject in a manner that only a true local would know their surroundings.

Lorette now lives in Suffolk, England, where she has her own private studio and holds watercolour, sketching and mixed-media classes. She is also an experienced speaker who has lead many seminars and workshops both at home and in Hong Kong when she visits.

Contact Lorette

lorette@loretteroberts.com