As you go through life, what you focus on, what you care about, shifts. At 80, nigh onto, I care about the land and about solitude, silence and space. In my work I care also about songs, language and the sensual surprises of painting in oil.

Last year, when trying to understand Indiana by reading its early history, I ran into a definition of the term frontier. "A frontier is the hither edge of open land." That edge is where I find myself when I am painting. Looking for, indeed courting, the participation of others is precious. Between us lies open land. Often I find myself simply looking quietly at a person's face - continuing to listen, to hear, in a way similar to our approach to live music, theater and painting.

We value live music and theater partly because we don't know what will happen next! Our lives are themselves rather like that of a painting. We live in moments, a series of acts building gradually into the person we are now becoming

In the artist’s words, “I was born in 1928 and came home from the hospital in a laundry basket during a blizzard. It accounts for a lot.”

Since that stormy arrival, Lois Main Templeton has left an imprint on all those who come in contact with her, both as an artist and a teacher. Her teaching has ranged from sponsorships by the Indiana Arts Commission, elementary schools to college, community centers and correctional facilities.

Since graduating from the Herron School of Art in 1981, her paintings have gained widespread attention in numerous invitational exhibitions and in fourteen solo shows in California, Idaho, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Kentucky. Her work is in the collections of the Indiana State Museum, the Richmond Art Museum, the Midwest Museum of American Art, and has been exhibited recently on two occasions by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington.

Recognized as one of the top Indiana women artists, Templeton maintains a studio at historic Fountain Square in Indianapolis and shows regularly with Editions Limited Gallery in Indianapolis.