Artist Info

"My process-focused work explores balance, pattern, and connection in a complex world. Celebrating and confronting Nature and transience through form and movement, I want to show you how Nature and time constantly expand and contract all around us, kindling our sense of awe, urgency, and wonder.
     I hope my work serves as a reminder to be receptive to mystery. Whether artist or viewer, individual life experience makes its way into every artwork while Nature reminds us we are all part of something larger."
                                         -Michelle Louis

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Michelle Louis is a full-time painter based near Madison, Wisconsin. Best known for her process-focused abstract landscapes, her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, and included in corporate and private collections throughout the United States and abroad, including the National Gallery of Costa Rica. She's licensed work to designers and consultants for projects large and small.

Artist and naturalist trained in studio art, landscape architecture, and graphic design, with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin, Michelle Louis's studio extends to her yard, where she nurtures an edible landscape. She was named to Best of 2024: Painting, by Saatchi Art, the world's leading online gallery.

Michelle documents her experience in nature through
playfully energetic and boldly constructed abstract paintings.
-Megan Wright, Senior Curator at Saatchi Art

Artist and naturalist Michelle Louis leaves the trail to observe a colony of leaf cutter ants. Amazon Basin, Bolivia. Photo by Alex Bauch.

From the sale of her art, Michelle donates science and nature books to schools and community libraries in Latin America. Photo by Patricia Luchsinger.

In the studio, putting finishing brushstrokes on a large abstract landscape

Michelle Louis CV/Resume