About Lou

I am at a marvelous place in life…my child is a productive citizen, my husband likes his job and the desire of his heart is for me to be happy. Painting makes me happy. Painting outside in nature makes me deliriously happy, but even painting in the studio works!
    Like many middle aged folks, I came to realize that I had worked most of my life in jobs that fulfilled material needs but did nothing to fulfill the desires of my heart and soul. I have always been interested in art. I remember telling my father that I wanted to be a commercial artist.  Being a good father, he promptly convinced me to get an education with which I could support myself.
     When I turned 40 I began taking a few local art classes and painting weekly. As I painted, I discovered me.  Inside me all these years lived an artist.
     I have been on this creative journey for about nine years now.  I study with artists whose work I admire, I read and reread art text, and I try to paint at least every other day. Nature is a master of composition and color; therefore, the most important thing I do is observe the world around me.
     Although I am not exclusively a landscape painter, it is my first love.  I am most content when painting vistas of strange lands.  I am thrilled when I visit a new site that offers fresh opportunities to respectfully attempt to emulate nature with oil paint and canvas.