Denise Du Broy's oil paintings on Yupo synthetic paper explore the relationship between light, color, space and the rural landscape of western South Dakota.

The striking luminosity of her paintings is achieved by the unique characteristics of Yupo paper and the original painting techniques she has developed over many years of exploration and experimentation.

Her paintings are abstract and intuitive. They are not narrative or literal landscapes, but are deeply influenced by both a "birds-eye view" as well as an "insect's view" of the shapes and colors that dominate the western landscape; long country roads, railroad tracks, stock ponds, fence and section lines, stray rocks and leaves, airborne cotton, meandering creeks and sprawling pastures of different colored grasses.

Born and raised in Southern California, Du Broy earned her BA
in Art at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and pursued post-graduate studies at San Francisco Art Institute. She taught art
for twelve years at Crossroads High School in Santa Monica, California. Du Broy and her family have lived and ranched (buffalo) in the Black
Hills and Badlands of South Dakota since 1993. She has two
children in college and a husband who is a journalist.