Multiple Award Winning Painting

Kelly Schamberger with model Elizabeth

Kelly Schamberger’s I Am The Daughter has won the People’s Choice Award – at the Duluth Art Institute and next week it travels to Richeson Gallery in Kimberly, Wisconsin for the Richeson75 International Figure/Portrait Exhibition.

This large (38″ x 32″) oil painting presents Special photographic challenges due to its size and subtle pastel colors. I’m grateful that Kelly entrusted me with capturing its beauty. She used my photo to enter it into these competitions and apparently it did the trick! Thanks Kelly!

Kelly Schamberger

Kelly Schamberger  is an award-winning fine artist, representational oil painter, and art instructor working in genres of still life, landscape, figurative, portraiture, and imaginative drawings and paintings. She earned a bachelor’s degree in art from the University of Wisconsin – River Falls, continued her education in arts management at St. Mary’s University in Minneapolis, studied graphic design and illustration at Boise State University, and then worked in digital marketing and freelance graphic design.

She transitioned to a fine art career through a 4-year classical drawing and painting apprenticeship with Jeffrey T. Larson and Brock Larson at the Great Lakes Academy of Fine Art in Duluth, Minnesota, and has studied with additional masters in anatomy, form, and landscape. Schamberger has been the recipient of numerous awards, including Best of Show, Beauty of Oil, invitational and juried exhibitions, competitive grants, and work in solo and group exhibitions. She is a member of the Outdoor Painters of Minnesota and Duluth Art Institute, and prides herself in being a mom to a beautiful 8-year-old, wife to an amazing husband, faithful Christian, and sister in the addiction recovery community. She works from a home studio space in Duluth, Minnesota, and has work in private collections throughout the United States.

Here’s a great article about Kelly Schamberger on MPR.

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