Jorli Perine - Paintings & Portraits by Commission

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Jorli can't remember a time when she wasn't drawing or painting. By age 5 she was sketching recognizable portraits. During her youth, her parents, Robert and LaDorna Perine, identified and nurtured her talent by providing her with space, time, and materials. Robert and LaDorna were both graduates of Chouinard Art Institute, her mother then working as a fashion illustrator for Buffum's and Nash's Department Stores in Los Angeles, and her father, teaching art for a time. He then started an advertising agency, Perine/Jacoby, in Newport Beach, California.

Jorli grew up in the beautiful community of Laguna Beach, and spent most of her childhood by the ocean and at the beach. It was quite natural for her to observe, and become a lover of the sea and of its powerful movements and changes. She was first trained at home by her parents and then also through school, winning the Laguna Beach Festival of Art scholarship. She then attended the Laguna Beach College of Art and Design. After college she worked for Ellison Educational Equipment (her family business) as a designer.

As she matured through life's experiences, Jorli developed a sensitivity and sensibility that complemented her skills and created an artistic vision that is uniquely her own. Her oil paintings are evocative, revealing emotions in the eyes and countenances of her portrait subjects. Her landscapes draw one into romantic and dreamlike vistas. She has the ability to capture light; be it the glow that radiates from within her portraits, or the play of reflective light in her seascapes and landscapes. Her work guides ones conscience to remember the earth's natural beauty, and to realize that its fertile, cyclical magic is now sadly secluded from much of everyday life.

Jorli's inspirational pieces utilize the subtle color combinations found only in nature. Her paintings of children and interiors celebrate the warmth of intimate family life, reveal brief moments of joy, and demonstrate her wonder at the humble magical things of life. She believes talent should be expressed and commits herself fully to her art as her form of expression.