Lorrainne Loots x laCalifornienne Daybreak
About Lorrainne Loots
Lorraine Loots is a South African artist best known for her miniature painting series, 365 Paintings for Ants, launched in 2013. Despite the illustrious career that followed, Lorraine never planned to become an artist: she dropped Art as a subject in high school, stopped painting indefinitely after finishing Art School (Stellenbosch University, 2010) and once again decided not to choose art as a career after completing two post-graduate courses.
Despite her best intentions to the contrary, Lorraine became an artist almost by accident, when her side project - 365 Paintings for Ants - unexpectedly turned into a full-blown occupation. In this series, she set out to paint a miniature every day for an entire year, allowing people to “book” certain dates and thus own the paintings created on these days. The project was met with an astounding international response, prompting her to follow on her first collection with another year-long challenge in 2014, titled ‘365 Postcards for Ants’.
In 2015, the artist launched 100 Paintings for Ants - a similar project, but with a more flexible schedule - which freed up time for a series of international exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, London and Paris. In June 2019, Lorraine put on her largest exhibition yet - and her first in London - where she displayed the over 900 miniature paintings she had created over the previous 5 years. Loots’ work has been featured on CNN, The Huffington Post, The Daily Mail, Colossal, Buzzfeed and Gizmodo among many others, and she currently has an Instagram following of 281 000.
Born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, the 34-year-old artist completed her BA degree in Visual Communications at Stellenbosch University in 2008, her MA in Film and Media at the University of Cape Town in 2011, and in 2012 attained a diploma in Business Acumen for Artists at the UCT School of Business. She is inspired by the notion of synergizing nostalgia, sentiment and assigned meaning to create heirloom artworks. She currently lives in Cape Town with her family: husband, Mark and five-year-old son, Felix.
Strap
- Hand-painted and handmade natural vegetable tanned leather strap (interchangeable) fits wrist 5.5" to 6.5"
- Strap is made in the USA
Watch Specifications
- Steel case set with 44 brilliant-cut diamonds totaling ~ 0.66 carats
- Dial hand-painted by miniature artist Lorraine Loots
- Pink baton-shaped hands
- Sapphire crystal
- 18mm lug to lug width
- 16mm buckle
- 36mm x 24mm case dimension
- 5mm thickness
- Crown set with a genuine ruby gemstone
- ETA quartz movement, Swiss Made
- Water resistant to 3 bar (approx. 30m/100ft) hour, minute functions
- Hand-painted and handmade natural vegetable tanned leather strap (interchangeable)
- Watch is Swiss made
- Strap is made in the USA
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