When the artist starts to speak about his relationship with nature, his eyes light up. "Having grown up on the Southeast Texas Gulf Coast, you saw incredibly complex natural imagery ... pelicans, spoonbills, skimmers, all the seabirds; you had to know about them and of course you had to watch out for the alligators," he says. As a child he had a rare sighting of an ivory-billed woodpecker: "My grandfather pulled me aside and told me, 'You need to look at this; this is a big deal.' ... The thing was about as big as a goose."According to his biography here, Everett was born in 1950.
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