Snee Farm

Snee Farm
Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
16 August 1997
Watercolor on cold press Lana paper
4 x 6", archival mat & backing to 10 x 8"
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I had to move from Tamworth, there was no question about that.

At some point, early in 1997, I was performing a gig or two in Charleston, South Carolina and was invited to give a presentation on songwriting at the Charleston Writers Conference. I did a lot of walking around Charleston and fell in love with the place. Who wouldn't?

During the conference I met an administrator at the College of Charleston who rented out the semi-detached back section of her home on the Peninsula and suddenly there was a plan in place. We agreed on a date. I packed up and drove down only to discover that my new landlord had changed the date and arranged for me to rent a room from a friend in Mount Pleasant. So I unloaded my U-Haul into said friend's garage and moved into a small room with a bath in a lovely home with a lovely host. From there, I would head out to my second European tour but in the meanwhile, suspended, unsettled, I explored and connected as best I could.

The house where I stayed in Mount Pleasant was in a development on what was once the Snee Farm Plantation where the early American politician, Charles Pinckney built a house in 1754.

After recovering from the landing and unloading and having somewhat oriented myself, I threw my paints in the car one day and pulled over not far from the house and made this painting on a part of Boone Hall Creek as an afternoon storm rolled in. The longer I worked on it, the darker the sky, the more I had to work to capture the darkening sky until I finally realized that the painting would turn black if I didn't quit while I was ahead. That or be drenched by the storm.

Every Sunday I post a new painting and story behind the watercolors I made while touring as a singer songwriter. Follow the stories behind the paintings of these serialized posts by working your way up from the bottom.