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Acrylic on Wood (skateboard)
8"x32"
Les Schettkoe’s work exists in the space between the sacred and the ruined. Drawing from a background in design and visual storytelling, his paintings merge the visceral with the symbolic—figures become vessels, faces become echoes, and silence functions as a medium. His practice is defined by restraint and rupture, using muted palettes, distressed surfaces, and intentional incompleteness, where absence carries as much weight as presence.
The imagery feels unearthed rather than painted, emerging like fragments of memory or dream. While deeply personal, the work resists autobiography, instead inviting viewers to confront their own internal terrain—grief, reverence, and forgetting. Schettkoe lives and works in California.
Acrylic on Wood (skateboard)
8"x32"
Les Schettkoe’s work exists in the space between the sacred and the ruined. Drawing from a background in design and visual storytelling, his paintings merge the visceral with the symbolic—figures become vessels, faces become echoes, and silence functions as a medium. His practice is defined by restraint and rupture, using muted palettes, distressed surfaces, and intentional incompleteness, where absence carries as much weight as presence.
The imagery feels unearthed rather than painted, emerging like fragments of memory or dream. While deeply personal, the work resists autobiography, instead inviting viewers to confront their own internal terrain—grief, reverence, and forgetting. Schettkoe lives and works in California.