Lorraine Surcouf is a mature professional artist who has accomplished a significant body of work, exhibiting and selling her egg tempera paintings in Canada, USA, and Mexico. Lorraine attended the Winnipeg School of Art and the Ontario College of Art where Alan Collier, the well-known landscape artist, taught her the egg tempera technique that she is well known for. Her paintings are in many corporate and private collections including The Rothman Collection, Imperial Oil, T. Eaton Co., American Express and Toronto Public Library. She has taught both children and adults the techniques of watercolor and egg tempera. Lorraine lives on Salt Spring Island and continues her work as a landscape artist.