Lauren Litwa

My interest in spirituality and nature are key elements in creating each painting. I am a conduit for each vision which comes through me and is painted onto the canvas.

Creating an imaginary world, one filled with color, natural elements and a concern for the heath of our beautiful planet is at the core of my work.
Color has always played an important role in my art and when I’m in the flow of painting, I enter a place of calmness where there is no time. I find it can be very meditative experience.

I incorporate natural elements that I love such as birds, orchids, foxes, turtles and trout in my landscapes and sometimes like to use simplified barns to create a stage setting. I think of these places almost like a movie set, a setting where something is about to happen. This is the great mystery. What will unfold?

There’s a huge universe out there that grabs ahold of my imagination.
We’re not alone after all.

I am influenced by visual artists like film maker M. Night Shaymalan and painters Will Barnet, Louis Sloan and Paul Gauguin.

I'm a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where I received The William Emlen Cresson Traveling Scholarship Award for painting. I've exhibited my spiritually inspired w...

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Exhibitions include the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Noyes Museum, The Philadelphia Artists Alliance, Center for Emerging Visual Artists, American Embassy in Brussels, Belgium, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Suzanne Arnold Gallery, PA State Museum, Nexus Gallery, Keystone Art Gallery and Stuart Levy Gallery. Awards include the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant, First Prize for Painting, Art of the State, State Museum, Harrisburg and the William Emlen Cresson Traveling Scholarship Award. I’ve attended residencies at the Margo-Kelb Dune Shack and La Villa Arrigo in Florence, Italy. Collectors come to my studio in Wawa, PA to view and purchase my work. For more information please contact Lauren@LitwaArt.com