Lorna received her B.F.A. from Pratt Institute. Under the instruction of painter "James Gahagan":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gahagan, a very important influence, the course of her painting life was changed into pure abstraction.

She later earned an M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art, both in painting and sculpture, (working the 2-D concepts into 6’ welded steel, and casting in bronze) and has since taught at the R.I. School of Design, Brown University, University of Minnesota, and Dartmouth College.

Lorna was “Guest Artist Critic” since 1996-present at the Vermont Studio Center. She teaches painting, drawing and art history at Western New England University, (since 2004), and taught a "Drawing Marathon" at the New York Studio School September 2012. Lorna has lectured at the Instituto de Belles Artes, (Medellin, Colombia); American University, (D.C. and in Italy); Humboldt State University, (CA); The New York Studio School several times, and at the Institute for American Universities in Aix-en-Provence, (France). She has received a residency at the Cape Dune Shacks, Provincetown, MA., May 2013.