I grew up in the Palouse region of Idaho and have always known and loved its special charisma. I’ve also lived away for many years, including ten years in Texas, but each summer I’d return to paint in the Palouse hills.
On one such summer return, a local farmer with an expansive spirit gave me the go ahead to build a studio-shack at a high point on his land.
After the summer, back in Texas, I dashed off a pencil sketch of the structure I had in mind and mailed it to my father. A couple of months passed and he told me he’d built it and perched it on a foundation of boulders he’d cobbled together from the hillside.
