Donaldsonville, Louisiana, artist Robin Durand brought easel and brushes to West Feliciana’s Tunica Hills in August 2001 to record the forest’s late Summer mood.
“It was a real challenge because communicating the scene required lots of minute information, but I wanted to maintain a bold simplicity of big shapes as I do in my city scapes. This was what I came up with, along with a renewed respect for the complexity of these dense organic views,” says Durand, who completed his masters in fine arts at LSU.