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I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.

The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.

Growing up in a rural setting in Minnesota, I was raised with the outdoors and a sense of adventure.

I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about.

Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.

I like rural areas.

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape.

But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.