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, and was fortunate enough to have had many opportunities to develop and extend her range of interests, inspired by her historical surroundings.

Lorraine spent time working in the Palace of Westminster for a prominent cabinet minister. Through her time at the Houses of Parliament, she quickly appreciated the machinations of life within the high stakes ‘corridors of power’ and decided that it was not for her.

Following this, Lorraine trained as a nutritionist for a short-lived career in this field. All the while, Lorraine’s growing passion with art and creativity continued to grow.

She then spent three years studying the History of Art in Greenwich, whilst actively pursuing her career as an artist, first with drawings, but quickly embracing Oil Painting as her preferred medium.

Since then, her artwork has been fortunate enough to be featured in many exhibitions, publications and prominent offices, and in 1995 was honoured to receive a commission to paint the portrait of Wilhelm Roentgen, the inventor of x-ray to celebrate its hundredth-year anniversary.

Lorraine continued to broaden her creative passions. She found herself in the London studio of candle-maker to His Royal Highness Prince Charles to learn the age-old artisan craft of traditional candle-making, and soon came to understand that producing candles were not for the faint-hearted, due to the unpredictable nature of the molecules when trying to create a distinctive perfume. But finally, a successful brand emerged.

More recently, Lorraine has taken advantage of Britain’s world class museums, galleries and exhibitions to indulge her imagination as she examined in forensic detail the lives of the world’s most celebrated artists. It was this, that sparked a creative ambition that persisted until finally sitting down to write her first work of fiction, an art thriller. Da Vinci's Masterstroke was the result. When Lorraine is not working on new creative ventures, she has started to research and collect artefacts from the ancient world.