Artist Statement-
" Those huge, tawny. grass-covered hills are what I miss most about the West. I return to them whenever I can. They may be " The Blues," where the Elk winter; Wyoming's ghost-haunted, undulating sea of memories; the strange, barren range along Bodega Bay, or foothills preserved by Wallace Stegner and his friends, floating up behind Stanford.

Wherever I look, they are there. And they are filled with bits of song, people, poetry. In those vast Western landscapes even ordinary objects stand sharply etched - evidence of vivid events snagged in my being and by my brush. "

About The Artist
Lois Main Templeton has lived on both coasts, studying first at Williams College in Massachusetts and later at Canada College in California, where she lived for many years. In 1981 she graduated with High Distinction from Herron School of Art, where she then taught part-time until 1989. In addition to several one-person shows in Indiana, her paintings have also received solo exhibition in Boston, Chicago, Louisville, Dayton Washington, D.C., California and Idaho.

In 1997, Templeton was commissioned to create the Indiana Governor's Arts Awards, and The National Museum of Women in The Arts in Washington chose a Templeton painting to represent Indiana in the first of their ongoing series of solo exhibitions entitled " From the States. "

In 1998, The National Museum of Women in the Arts included her work in their invitational, " Brx as Art XI, " and three of Templeton's large-format paintings on paper are in the Eitiejorg Museum' Biennial, "New Art of the West, 6."
The Indiana State Museum and the Midwest Museum of American Art have Templeton paintings in their collections. Her work is also to be found in numerous corporate and private collections Reviews and articles about the artisl'5 work have appeared in The New Art Examiner, Dialogue Arts Indiana, Indianapolis Women, The Indianapolis Star, NUVO, and the Louisville Courier Journal.

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