Rolland Golden describes his paintings that he does with a hard-edge watercolor technique as abstract realism. His subjects are from his native state of Louisiana, and he is especially committed to the depiction of landscapes with roads.

"I am fascinated by roads," he says. " They are these man-made elements running right through nature, and they are totally foreign to what's around them. To me they have their own kind of beauty."

Although Golden is in many ways a regionalist, he is not considered a sentimental painter. "Whether he paints a stretch of blacktop rising to meet the horizon, a deserted, weathered house or an imagined scene from the Civil War, Golden's work is informed by a powe...