Postcards from Holland
This series is an artistic response to Emily Perl Kingsley’s Essay Welcome to Holland, where the author likens having a child with disabilities to landing in Holland when you’ve planned a trip to Italy. The journey involves purchasing new guide books, changing expectations and finding the beauty in a country you didn’t plan to visit. As part of her own journey as the mother of a child with special needs, Laura traveled to Holland in 1998.
In the resulting Postcards From Holland series, Laura uses images of tulips, windmills, canals and storybook architecture to create her own visual interpretations and metaphors of the hidden beauty, struggle and joy of life in the special needs world.
Postcards From Holland was presented as a solo exhibition in 2002 at the Studio Channel Islands Art Center at CSU Channel Islands in Camarillo alongside essays about children with special needs from parents, professionals and doctors. Laura continues to explore the imagery of Holland in her art.
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Blooming Late
24” x 34” | Sold
Coasts of White
24” x 36” | $2800
Holding Hope
24” x 48″ | $3000
Earth’s Own Crown
30” x 40” | $3000
Bouquet of Love
24” x 30” | $1800
Faces of Holland
24” x 36” | $2000
“26”
8” x 24” | $800
Perfect Bouquet
15” x 30” | Sold
Amsterdam Imagined
24” x 36” | $1000
Swept Away
15” x 30” | $800
A Crocus in a Hidden Garden
8.5” x 11” | Sold
Gilded Night Music
Sold
The Three Sisters
15” x 30” | $800
The Truth About Swans
15” x 30” | $800
Arabian Mystery
24” x 48” | $3000
Delft Dreams and Hyacinth
16” x 20” | $800
One Foot in Holland
24” x 30” | Not for Sale
Spring Fever
12” x 24” | Sold
The Red Light District
16” x 11” | Sold
Tending the Fields
Sold
Pools of Sorrow Waves of Joy
8.5”x 11” | $700
A Shoulder to Lean On
16” x 20”
Down Days and Daffodils
24” x 48” $3000
The Road To Haarlem
Sold