Lorraine Amrani
The Author
A painter who turned to the page
Greenwich-raised, Westminster-tempered, and trained at the easel — Lorraine Amrani spent a lifetime studying the masters before she wrote a thriller about one.
Lorraine Amrani
The Author
Greenwich-raised, Westminster-tempered, and trained at the easel — Lorraine Amrani spent a lifetime studying the masters before she wrote a thriller about one.
Lorraine Amrani was born and raised in the Royal Borough of Greenwich — the heart of London's industrial revolution and home to Tudor kings and queens. Surrounded by history from the start, she was fortunate enough to have countless opportunities to develop and extend her interests, shaped by the past at every turn.
She spent time working in the Palace of Westminster for a prominent cabinet minister. Through her years at the Houses of Parliament she came to understand the machinations of life within the high-stakes corridors of power — and decided, quite firmly, that they were not for her. A short-lived career as a trained nutritionist followed. All the while, a deeper passion for art and creativity kept growing.
Every masterpiece hides a motive — and every painter, a secret.
Lorraine went on to study the History of Art in Greenwich for three years, pursuing her own career as an artist — first in drawing, then quickly embracing oil painting as her preferred medium. Her work has since featured in exhibitions, publications and prominent offices, and in 1995 she was honoured with a commission to paint the portrait of Wilhelm Röntgen, the inventor of the x-ray, to mark its hundredth anniversary.
Her curiosity rarely sat still. She found herself in the London studio of a candle-maker to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, learning the age-old artisan craft of traditional candle-making — and discovered it was not for the faint-hearted, given the unpredictable nature of perfume molecules. In time, a successful brand emerged all the same.
More recently, Lorraine has taken full advantage of Britain's world-class museums and galleries to indulge her imagination, examining in forensic detail the lives of the world's most celebrated artists. It was this that finally sparked the ambition to sit down and write her first work of fiction — an art thriller. Da Vinci's Masterstroke was the result. When she is not working on new creative ventures, she researches and collects artefacts from the ancient world.