Noted oil painter and watercolorist Louise Gillis was born in California and raised in northern Minnesota. An accomplished representational artist, she studied at the University of Minnesota and completed a four-year program at Atelier LeSueur in Excelsior, Minnesota with additional studies at Atelier Lack in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Atelier, a studio school of fine arts, consists of a four-year program in drawing and painting from nature, eight hours a day, five days a week. The school combines the 19th century European tradition of drawing with Impressionistic color theory.

Louise has studied in Tokyo, Japan and Madrid, Spain and was resident artist at the Adzak in Paris, France, the Black Hills, South Dakota and Maui, Hawaii. She has also extensive museum study of the old masters and impressionists in the United States and Europe and was a registered painter at the Tuileries in Paris, France.

Most recently, she has completed a mural of a vibrant bistro scene at the Amsterdam Bar and Bistro in the historic district of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS

• Minnesota Monthly - June 2004
• Sun Sailor - 2004
• Human Rights Campaign - 2003
• Hopkins Art Center - 2003-2004
• The Rake - 2003
  
• Best of Flower Painting - l996
• Minnesota Horticulture Magazine - l996