Peter Freund Projects

LOUISE FREUND ARTWORK
1970s - 2005

Louise was the only known person in her class at Northwestern to graduate with a Bachelors of Science degree in Creative Writing. As if that achievement were not enough, she dedicated most of her adult life to painting. She began with charcoal sketching, then pen and ink drawings, followed by oil, silk-screen, trowel painting, and batik, before settling in to the use of watercolor as her principal medium.

Over several decades, Louise moved through figurative to abstract work, arriving at a practice inspired by Kandinsky based in a contingent process, a kind of improvisatory call-and-response emergence of composition. In painting, she was inspired by light, shadow, and color, for which watercolor became the perfect medium.

Louise was active in her local art scene, had a shop in mid-life where she showed and sold her work, won local competition awards as a watercolorist, was a member and later gallerist through the art league, and for many years after closing her shop worked out of her own studio to focus on painting.

Outside of making visual art, Louise was devoted to classical music with chorus, piano, and guitar. She was an avid reader, especially of the murder mystery genre. She also returned to writing short fiction and poetry in the last fifteen years of her life. 

WATERCOLOR ABSTRACTS | WATERCOLOR SCENIC | OIL ABSTRACTS | PEN & INK DRAWINGS

The reproductions below show much of Louise’s remaining work, organized more or less in reverse chronological order. (For full-screen view, click on any image.) For inquiries, please use the contact function on this website.