My work begins with direct observation. Painting with oils outdoors I respond to the landscape and juxtapositions between nature and built structures. Depicting paired down simplified dwellings, land, and water, I emphasize color relationships and spatial tension 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 The University at Albany NY. After receiving an MFA she taught art for 20 years and is currently on the Board of Directors of Mount Gretna School of Art , an intensive observational landscape painting school on Pennsylvania.
RECENT EXHIBITIONS 2024:
Prelude: A Finale at Forty, gallery artists, Lancaster Galleries
Poetic Transformations, Gene Shaw and Lou Schellenberg,
Cerulean Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Demuth Museum Invitaional, Lancaster, PA
Echo Valley Art Group, Sykes Gallery, Millersville University, PA
Back Yards and Hidden Spaces, Solo Exhibition, Lancaster Galleries, PA
GALLERY REPRESENTATION:
The Willard Gallery, South Portland, Maine
https://www.thewillardgallery.com/artists/lou-schellenberg
Lancaster Galleries, PA
http://lancastergalleries.com/artists/lou-schellenberg/