Lennart Schou

I paint to create moments where you stop, look again, and feel something. My work lives between precision and freedom, and often in the enigma of a gaze that holds you a second longer than expected.

I began my life as an artist at 35, when I signed up for an art course and never looked back. It was followed by four years of apprenticeship with two very different masters. The first taught me the classical craft: precision, structure, light and the ability to render the world true to life. The second taught me to let go and trust intuition and abstraction. Today my paintings grow from the tension between those two worlds.

I work in acrylic and oil, often on large canvases that give the work a strong presence in a room. I keep my palette deliberately small, so the eye is drawn to what matters: a line, a movement, a face. The works are immediate at first glance and reveal new layers the longer you live with them.

My inspiration comes from human relationships, nature and the unspoken stories we carry. I want my paintings to move people: to open up new insights or to make us revisit old feelings.

Based in Copenhagen, I have exhibited at galleries and art spaces in Denmark since 2016, and my work has been featured in Saatchi Art’s cur...

Exhibitions

2026
Workplace exhibition / Høvelte kursuscenter

2025
CPH ArtSpace 2025 Link

2024
CPH ArtSpace at Docken / Docken Copenhagen - Link
Photomarked with Copenhagen Photo Festival at Absalon - link

2023
Exhibition at Galleri Stendhal
Exhibition at Galleri Colbjoern

2022
Creative Mind at Musicon - Link
CPH ArtSpace at Docken / Docken - Copenhagen, Denmark - Link

2021
CPH ArtSpace in Copenhagen / Docken

2020
CPH ArtSpace / Docken - Copenhagen, Denmark - Link

2019
Workplace exhibition / Greve erhvervscenter - Greve, Denmark

2019
Workplace exhibition / Høvelte kursuscenter - Høvelte, Denmark

2019
3x3 / Galleri Symbol - Copenhagen, Denmark

2018
Censored show VK18 / Æglageret - Holbæk, Denmark - Link

2018
Gladsaxe summer exhibition / Gladsaxe - Gladsaxe, Denmark - Link
"Hvor vi er" / Galleri Symbol - Copenhagen, Denmark
Solo Show at Galleri Symbol / Galleri Symbol - Copenhagen, Denmark

2017
Solo show / Atelier 24 - Frederiksberg, Denmark