Laura Phillips

Laura Phillips
Woman in Landscape
Oil on canvas
2004
$750

 

Artist Statement

One day I was reading a book about Fernand Leger. On the radio was playing Doris Day singing “Take me back to the Black Hills of Dakota”. We had been in deep drought for some time and I was finding the landscape rather forbidding at times. The hills to the west sometimes look black. A curious composite image of Doris’ Black Hills and a Leger treatment of the landscape around me began forming. This painting is the result.