Painting Loten Art Lighting Stuart Loten is a Maine artist and lamp maker who handcrafts distinctive lighting at his Montville studio, Loten Art Lighting. His work balances a heavy hand and a soft touch, moving between metal fabrication and delicate silk painting, a self-taught process that ensures every lamp is one of a kind. After years designing lamps for a major manufacturer, Loten launched his own studio to create functional art that is both expressive and usable, rethinking traditional lamp construction along the way.