I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My wife's family lives up in South Carolina, so we go back and forth quite a bit up there.
I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.
I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.
I met people when we lived down in Raleigh who'd ask where I grew up, and I'd say about two hours west of Asheville, and they'd say they didn't know there was any North Carolina two hours west of Asheville. It was in many ways an isolated place.
My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by friends.
I grew up in rural Alabama, 50 miles from Montgomery, in a very loving, wonderful family: wonderful mother, wonderful father. We attended church; we went to Sunday school every Sunday.
I do mostly Southern landscapes. I do beautiful old barns that are falling down, and beautiful trees reflecting in the water. My lovely wife Dorothy and I travel quite a bit, so I take pictures of different things that inspire me to come home, when I come home here in North Carolina, into my art studio and paint these things.
I grew up in a town outside of Waco, Texas, and we had 30 acres.
I live mostly in New York, but I teach in both New York and L.A.
I grew up in Southern California, Simi Valley. I've lived in the same house all my life.