This Richmond, Virginia artist strives to create portraits that tell "interesting stories". With fresh and lively paint application, she produces a step-out-of-that-painting-and-talk-to-me likeness that she hopes will capture viewers' imagination for generations to come.

Loryn's years as an advertising agency owner, art director and illustrator all play a role in her ability to bring her subjects to life in paint and to portray the essence of each individual's character in a truthful and natural way.
Her portraits are included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery; National Museum of Women in the Arts; federal and state courtrooms; corporate, governmental, financial and religious institutions; universities and private home all over the country. Her work has been published in the following books: The Best of Oil Painting (1996), Portrait Inspirations (1998) and How Did You Paint That? 100 Ways to Paint People and Figures (2005). Recent articles about her work have appeared in October/November, 2002 issue of International Artist magazine, and in the September, 2008 and August, 2002 issue of American Artist magazine. She has received awards from the Portrait Society of America on three occasions.

Loryn Brazier is an alumna of Virginia Commonwealth University and the Master-Artist program at the Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts. She is a signature member of Alla Prima International; a member of the historic National Arts Club in New York, the Portrait Society of America, Inc., the American Artist Professional League, and Plein Air Painters of The Southeast; and an associate member of Oil Painters of America. Her work has been profoundly influenced by artists such as P. S. Kroyer, John Singer Sargent, Cecilia Beaux, Joaquin Sorolla, and by her former teacher and valued friend, Everett Raymond Kinstler, the nation's foremost portrait painter.