My subject is the cherished daughter of my friend Janie. Loren, whose exotic beauty stunned people everywhere she went, was deeply in love and engaged to be married at the time she passed away after a long battle with cancer. I feel so honored that her mother asked me to paint her for her project in Africa, Loren's Hope, as it was always Loren's desire to go to Africa. Her portrait will hang there in the medical mission in Arusha, Tanzania after my friend Lori Dunne frames it. Thank you again, Janie, for this privilege.
