I paint landscapes from observation, responding to the juxtapositions between nature and human built structures. The urgency of painting with oils outdoors necessitates a quick response between my vantage point and the painting’s surface, moving between representation and abstraction. Depicting paired down simplified dwellings, land, and water, I emphasize color relationships and spatial tensions seeking a visual narrative that is as insistent as the subject.
Lou Schellenberg
Recent Press, Lancaster PA, April 2024 :
MIKE ANDRELCZYK
BIO
Lou Schellenberg is a landscape painter of architecture and habitat in Pennsylvania, Maine and Nova Scotia. Her work is in numerous public and private collections in the US and Canada. Commissions include a recent painting for LL Bean in Maine.
Raised in New York and New England, Lou studied art at The Boston School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and University at Albany NY. After receiving an MFA she taught art for 20 years and is Emerita Professor of Art at Elizabethtown College, PA.
Schellenberg is on the Board of Directors of Mount Gretna School of Art , an intensive observational landscape painting school on Pennsylvania.
When not painting Lou volunteers as a Habitat Steward in Lancaster County and as a Riparian Ranger for the Chesapeake Bay Alliance.
Schellenberg is currently represented by
The Willard Gallery, South Portland, Maine
https://www.thewillardgallery.com/artists/lou-schellenberg
Lancaster Galleries, PA
http://lancastergalleries.com/artists/lou-schellenberg/