The visual arts differ from other creative fields in that many of the best-known practitioners have turned to the discipline later in life. Like Gauguin or Cezanne, Patrick Dougherty discovered his art after several personal re-creations. While relaxing at the Blind Tiger after a hard day's interweaving of his structure, Dougherty explained his emergence as a sculptor.
Every artist has a complicated history.
I was a hospital administrator, but the carpenters seemed to be having more fun. So I decided that I would build a house and stopped being an administrator. Hailing from Chapel Hill, the North Carolina native had an innate restlessness, causing him to shift his priorities. With his thick shock of white hair and his telltale sculptor's muscularity in cafe repose, Dougherty relays a rather surprising narrative. I became really intertwined with taking care of my children because of my time off.