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"Opposite this bluff, on the other side of the river, is a district of swamp or low land, the richest I ever saw, or perhaps anywhere to be seen: as for the trees I shall forbear to describe them, because it would appear to be incredible; let it suffice to mention, that the Cypress, Ash, Platanus, Populus, Liquidambar, and others, are by far the tallest, straightest, and every other way the most enormous that I have seen or heard of."
William Bartram, 1791, On Alabama's Tombigbee River
I love to paint the rural Southeast. It offers marsh areas of the Southern Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, coastal plains, piedmont and highlands of the Southern Appalachians with plunging trout streams and beautiful old farms. Although I've visited and painted in Russia, Estonia, Denmark, Bermuda, Canada, Mexico, all of the USA and my beloved Ireland, I keep coming back to paint my roots, the disappearing South.
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