Current Exhibit
Peter Heller, Bahamas Scene, 24 x 18, watercolor
Lou Schellenberg, Lawn Alley, 12 x 12, oil on panel
Spring 2025 Show at The Lodge
When: March 6, 2025 - June 9, 2025
Where: The Lodge at Woodloch
Artists: Peter Heller + Lou Schellenberg
PETER HELLER
Peter Heller’s artistic roots are deep and rich, beginning with a grandmother who was a watercolorist in the 1920’s and a mother who was a noted sculptor in her retirement years between 1980-2017. Nurtured in an aesthetic environment, Heller’s artistic inspirations draw on a lifetime of travel in the context of working as a well-known economist and author for the International Monetary Fund. This allowed him to visit almost all the world’s great museums in the United States, Europe, China, Japan,Southeast Asia, Africa and South America, and to collect pottery and art in these diverse worlds. His sensitivity to color was furthered by a lifetime of gardening in Washington DC and the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts.
Heller’s watercolor painting career began at age 70 in his retirement years, studying at the famed 92nd Street Y in Manhattan with well-known New York watercolorists and teachers including Bonnie Steinsnyder, Melanie Kozol and Wennie Huang. A lifetime of international travel has provided him with a wealth of imagery to draw upon from such diverse worlds as Iceland,Norway, Argentina, Japan, Bhutan, Maine, Costa Rica, Scotland and Manhattan. Heller is drawn to vivid landscapes, quirky characters and scenes, and sensitive moments with his grandchildren. “My photography has always sought to capture those fleeting moments of light and contrast, as well as rich mixes of color and harmony, and these are the fertile grounds that inspire my watercolor paintings.”
The artist gives us a glimpse of cherished moments, of people and places nearby and around the world. His work exudes a sense of wonder and peace, essential feelings we long to hold onto. After eight years of painting, we are delighted to show Heller’s delightful watercolors at the Lodge at Woodloch.
LOU SCHELLENBERG
is a visual artist who divides her year living in Pennsylvania and Nova Scotia Canada. For over thirty years her landscape paintings have combined observation and invention, creating paired down compositions of land, water, dwellings and structures in the environment.
Raised in both NY and New England the artist absorbed the best of two worlds: the culture and great art museums of NYC and the natural environment of coastal Massachusetts and Maine.
Her process combines observation and invention creating paired down compositions of dwellings and structures in her surroundings. Many of her paintings contain tension between representational and flat space and a human narrative absent of figures. Schellenberg attended The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and received an MFA in Painting from University at Albany, NY. Over her long career she has exhibited extensively in the US and Canada. Recent solo exhibits in Pennsylvania have been at The Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, and at Lancaster Galleries. In Maine she is represented by The Willard Gallery. Her paintings have been acquired by many private and public collections. Commissioned works are in health care and corporate centers including Milton Hershey Medical Center, Penn Medicine, and LL Bean. Schellenberg is Emerita Prof of Art at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania where she taught drawing and painting for 20 years.
Past Exhibits
