Lori Feldpausch

About Lori

Living in the northern tip of Lake Huron on the Canadian border, Lori’s summers were filled with nature and the quietness that the big body of water creates.  With no phone or TV her imagination was free to explore and grow.  After having lived in Michigan’s lower peninsula for 35 years she still spends as much time in the summer right next door to where she grew up.  Renewing her spirit and giving the calmness that only the Great Lakes can do. 

Her art has been a lifetime journey working with a New York artist spending 14 years working on Murals for large hotels such as The Plaza in New York (4 years, 18 murals) Palm Beach Breakers hotel (Venetian Ballroom) Greenbrier (restoration) and many others. She decided it was time to paint for her and so she started taking classes, first with Sharon Griffs Tarr, and then Scott Christensen, Mary Whyte, Stuart Shils, C.W. Mundy, Diane Rath (mentor), Kevin Beifuss, David Slonim, and Daniel Gerhartz.

Lori is a firm believer in self- study. Having examined a long lineage of artists, Lori feels a sense of history when she paints, be it the color of green that Edgar Payne used on his water or the light that streams across a Sorrola painting. She has been in National shows such as Millicent Rogers Plein Air show (Taos, NM), Abend Gallery, Denver Plein Air Show plein, Richard Schmid Auction, American Impressionists Society and Oil painters of America.  She has also been In Paint Grand Traverse since its inception. 

Award Winning in Plein Air Events:
Solo Show - Center Gallery at Glen Arbor (July 2015)
Art of the Sleeping Bear and Poetry and Prose (2013) Published
American Impressionist Society Show (2015, 2018, 2020) 
Oil Painters of America (2018, 2020)

Memberships:
OAB plein Air Painters 
Plein Air Painters North West Michigan 
Plein Air Painters of North Western Michigan
Great Lakes Plein Air Painters, Master Member 
Plein Air Painters of West Michigan
American Impressionist Society  
Oil Painters of America

Galleries:
Tinker Studio - Old Mission Peninsula, Traverse City, MI 
Sanctuary Gallery - Glen Arbor, MI 
Twisted Fish Gallery - Elk Rapids, MI
Point of View Gallery - Mackinac Island, MI