BIO
Artist Lou Schellenberg lives and works in Pennsylvania and Nova Scotia, Canada. Painting with oils she creates colorfully invented compositions of dwellings, structures, and landscapes in her surroundings. Color, light and shadows shift between representation and abstraction.
Lou’s award winning work is in public and private collections across the US and has been exhibited in galleries, and museums including a solo exhibit at The Susquehanna Art Museum (2025), The Lancaster Museum of Art, The Demuth Foundation, The Woodmere Art Museum, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, The Fitchburg Art Museum, The Silvermine Art Center, and many University Museums. Commissions include large paintings acquired by Penn Medicine, The Milton S Hershey Medical Center, and LL Bean.
Schellenberg earned a BA in Painting from Framingham State University, a Diploma from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and an MFA in Painting from University at Albany, NY.
When she is not painting Lou loves being outside working on native habitat gardening, hiking and volunteering locally.

STATEMENT
All my paintings start from a process of being outside, looking and working from observation. I love the whole experience of discovering a landscape, setting up the easel and spending hours as the light and weather changes. Certain views and locations become layered with associations and emotions as I return to paint at the same sites repeatedly. Inside the studio I’m using these “plein-air” easel paintings, imagination, and memory to create larger works.