| Phil Saunders, age 49, was born in Massachusetts and raised along the coastal area
near Cape Cod. He was severely neglected and abused as a child, and his emotional and
intellectual growth was considerably stunted. For most of his childhood, Phil was
considered to be retarded. Eight years ago he began doing art work as part of a therapy
program. Phil has lived in complete isolation from the formal art world, and his exposure
to art has been limited to calendar scenes.
Though he has lived in the midwest for the
last twenty years, much of his artwork reflects the coastal and country scenes from his
childhood. Water and the reflections of the landscape in water are reoccuring elements in
his work. His style has an almost paint-by-number quality, as he first outlines his
paintings in black ink and then fills them in with acrylic paints.
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