My name is Lenore Varaksa Corey.   I am a resident of Huntsville and a native of Northeastern Pennsylvania.  I am a painter, who includes myself in a family line of woodworkers, seamstresses, and fiber artists.  My Polish immigrant Grandmother taught me how to make dress patterns, use a sewing machine, and a loom at an age when I was too small for my feet to reach the floor, while sitting at a machine.

Determined to make my own path, and possessing a “hands on” temperament, I began drawing at a very early age; before entering 1st grade where I fell in love with painting. 

The idea of painting for me, has come to resemble a building process; albeit processes like that of building two- dimensional structures. The suggestion of angular lines and strong earth-like colors in my work, are the elements I find to be the most able in building the images.

"I work in what I term an Expressive Flat Style. This Flat Style allows me to respond to the canvas with visual simplicity, therefore placing images more directly and plainly in front of the viewer."

I acknowledge this about my work:

I am by my nature, drawn to objects that are rooted and seemingly weighted, rather than by objects light and airy. But, there is not always that same distinction between what is abstract and what is concrete in thought.  The psychological nature of much of my work involves dreams and poetry, words in books, and sounds, but at the same time the meaning is concrete, it has a real existence. 

After attending several Art classes at Marywood College, in Pennsylvania, I went on to receive my “Masters in Art Education” at Alabama A & M University.  I also have an interest in Literature, and I have taken coursework at Athens University in Alabama to fulfill an English degree.  I often integrate Literature into my artwork.

I have worked as Artist- in- Residence (1999), teaching a cultural unit at Falkville Elementary School in Alabama. I have taught student classes at the Huntsville Museum of Art (currently ongoing), and at several City Elementary and Middle Schools (1999-2007), also in Alabama.  I am a working artist and currently offer classes in my Art Studio.